On Wednesday 28 September 2005 10:23, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 September 2005 00:35, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > What I have done in my ebuilds using USE_EXPAND is add extra IUSE-like
> > variables, for example:
> >
> > IUSE_VIDEO_CARDS="radeon sis mga"
> > IUSE_INPUT_DEVICES="synaptics wacom"
> >
> > for `use video_cards_sis` etc..
> >
> > This would allow for possible QA checks. Potentially, portage could look
> > through and display things at --verbose like:
> >
> > [ebuild  N    ] x11-base/x11-drm-20050807 +dga -nls VIDEO_CARDS="+sis
> > +mga -radeon" 538 kB [2]
>
> This output is exactly what my patch gives, but it currently works by
> inspecting IUSE. However, it should be possible to indirectly pull the
> information from the above flags instead. Adding support for a
> USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN var should cover USERLAND and friends as well (although
> those would still need to be defined in IUSE_USERLAND="...")

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