From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EIiGx-0000fd-9o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 07:47:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8N7eBMI005479; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 07:40:11 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8N7cQ3x017182 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 07:38:26 GMT Received: from zh034158.ppp.dion.ne.jp ([222.3.34.158] helo=opteron246.suzuki-stubbs.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EIiEc-0000Yq-Mv for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 07:44:42 +0000 Received: by opteron246.suzuki-stubbs.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7B14D102DC6; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:44:47 +0900 (JST) From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Two-level USE-flag system VAR: USE="minimal" for kernel sources Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:44:44 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.91 References: <431C97C4.3070406@gentoo.org> <200509231019.16895.jstubbs@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1288660.5akLDIsmuC"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509231644.47078.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 8d024da2-03fb-4194-9478-80dc0c9d832e X-Archives-Hash: 9084870962845d8a4cd697f29e8234e4 --nextPart1288660.5akLDIsmuC Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 23 September 2005 15:36, Duncan wrote: > OTOH, it's obviously yet /another/ thing for portage devs to work on, and > portage is /supposed/ to be in feature request freeze ATM... I like the > idea, but whether the benefits of putting it on the current feature list > outweigh the costs of putting it off, is something I'm not going to even > pretend I want to evaluate. =3D8^| If you portage devs believe it's easy > to "make it so", perhaps further discussion is warranted. If not, I'm > not in favor of putting off the next portage yet /again/ to make it > happen, tho it'd certainly be nice to have, so I'd say it's not even > worth further discussion ATM. JMHO... There's absolutely no work required on portage to support USE flag=20 "categories". There's nothing preventing a "/" character from appearing in= =20 a USE flag, hence the support is there already. The work would come in=20 adjusting every ebuild to use the different name as well as killing=20 backward compatibility with already installed packages and binary packages.= =20 =2D-=20 Jason Stubbs --nextPart1288660.5akLDIsmuC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDM7JvxvWNPsk/ZP4RAjKHAJ9v8DG5uX0l5EtTOCh8BczvkMP6EQCgu1bf CVc06/ND81aCwTWPFBjnGmc= =2pSJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1288660.5akLDIsmuC-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list