[gentoo-dev] Need a new USE variable

[gentoo-dev] Need a new USE variable

[fdnews_gentoo]

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.

thanks


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Need a new USE variable

[Jon Portnoy]

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.


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Need a new USE variable

[John Mylchreest]

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for this you might want to build everything into it by default, and have
a set of IUSE flags to disable them?
check out the mozilla ebuild for an example of the IUSE please.


On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 19:21, 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.
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
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