From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17867 invoked by uid 1002); 16 Jun 2003 17:01:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 1444 invoked from network); 16 Jun 2003 17:01:59 -0000 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:01:58 -0400 From: Jon Portnoy To: fdnews_gentoo@partimage.org Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030616170158.GA6168@cerberus.oppresses.us> References: <200306161821.18809.fdnews_gentoo@partimage.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200306161821.18809.fdnews_gentoo@partimage.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Need a new USE variable X-Archives-Salt: 44b99cad-804d-481e-8cd1-2b66a4c5f9f5 X-Archives-Hash: 06bc29873663c17c93876b3d1e7fdb7e On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 06:21:18PM +0000, fdnews_gentoo@partimage.org wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing ebuilds scripts for the QtParted partition tool. The problem is > that tool need many external tools: > - xfsprogs if it supports the XFS file system > - jfsutils for JFS > - libntfs for NTFS > > But the problem is these use variables does not existing (according to > "http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml"). > I would need to use them. Can I just suppose these variables already exists, > or is there a need of declaration in the portage internals ? > > It would be a good idea to answer this question in the > GentooDeveloperDocumentation. > Local USE vars can be used if they're in use.local.desc. When submitting this ebuild, make sure to note in the bug any local USE variables. Check out /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc for an example of some local USE variables (and the corresponding ebuilds for an example of how they're used in the ebuild). Documentation suggests should be posted to http://bugs.gentoo.org - there are two documentation categories, developer docs and user docs, if I remember correctly. -- Jon Portnoy avenj/irc.freenode.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list