From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IeioC-0004wY-UU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:57:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l982l6SD030637; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 02:47:06 GMT Received: from mail.genone.homeip.net (dslb-082-083-025-139.pools.arcor-ip.net [82.83.25.139]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l982j6cT028028 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 02:45:06 GMT Received: by mail.genone.homeip.net (Postfix, from userid 460) id A1501281D8; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 04:44:41 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8-gr0-genone_0.7 (2007-02-13) on lyta.genone.homeip.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=7.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_20 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8-gr0-genone_0.7 Received: from sheridan (sheridan.genone.homeip.net [192.168.0.40]) by mail.genone.homeip.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 76E61281D5 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 04:44:35 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 04:43:48 +0200 From: Marius Mauch To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: use flags -> use options Message-Id: <20071008044348.a5fc3297.genone@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20071007191225.GB10856@eric.schwarzvogel.de> References: <47090820.7060506@gentoo.org> <20071007200938.7e1cebb3@gentoo.org> <20071007191225.GB10856@eric.schwarzvogel.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i686-pc-mingw32) 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: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ca190a7b-70f4-440c-8b65-e0141ddc4c74 X-Archives-Hash: cf0349fa67082aa27b7147dfe8596d66 On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 21:12:25 +0200 Tobias Klausmann wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, 07 Oct 2007, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > > > "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" : > > > 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list