Re: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND is not an IUSE replacement [was: New USE_EXPAND: CLAWS_MAIL_PLUGINS]

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 11:03:41PM -0400, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote:
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> On 05/03/2013 05:28 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 5:08 PM, René Neumann <lists@necoro.eu> wrote:
> >> Am 03.05.2013 22:20, schrieb Zac Medico:
> >>> Is it worth changing?
> >>
> >> Nope. What's worth changing is the excessive use of USE_EXPAND for no
> >> reason (your described usecase makes sense for reasonable USE_EXPAND
> >> stuff like VIDEO_CARDS). But seems like I'm the only one concerned by
> >> this, so I should probably rest my case and switch to silent sobbing
> >> instead ;-).
> >>
> >> - René
> >>
> > 
> > Well, I do agree that they are overused. For example, GRUB_PLATFORMS
> > is used by only one package.
> > 
> > I would convert it back into a normal set of use flags, but that would
> > mean any users of sys-boot/grub:2 would have to update their
> > configuration. I don't think it is worth it at this point.
> > 
> 
> Considering grub:2 isn't really used by the majority of users I feel
> compelled to note that you could convert now and just pick a sane set of
> use defaults.  I know it's been a while since EAPI2 was introduced but I
> do love that little feature...  :-)

I would also like to chime in here and point out that all grub:2 users
are ~arch users. If we were going to break stable it would be more of a
shake-up, but since it isn't happening that way, I would say go for it.
~arch users are expected to be able to handle things like this.

William

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