Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: use flags -> use options

[Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 21:12:25 +0200
Tobias Klausmann <klausman@schwarzvogel.de> wrote:

> Hi! 
> 
> On Sun, 07 Oct 2007, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
> 
> > "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@gentoo.org>:
> > > I imagine there are a lot more cases where the simple on/off
> > > system we have now is suboptimal. I could be wrong of course.
> > > Please comment.
> > 
> >  This key=value systems sounds interesting.  Another use could be
> > the choice between xulrunner, seamonkey, firefox. 

We already have this with USE_EXPAND. Not exactly the same syntax, but
I don't see a terrible problem in that, and we don't have to fix all
three trillion related tools to handle it. Unless you can come up
with a case that can't be handled with USE_EXPAND.

> And maybe it can be alleviated for some of the virtuals problem
> space. For those apps that need an editor, one could think of
> editor=vim.

I don't see how this is related at all, as the packages need an editor,
but don't care which editor. So what would USE="editor=vim" do?

Marius
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