Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND NGINX_MODULES_STREAM

[Luis Ressel <aranea@aixah.de>]

On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 07:37:10 +0100
Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> wrote:

> And now I can't figure out what I need to enable to have "rewrite"
> work. Good job!
> 
> The names match the internal module names, which is what I care about.
> Figuring out if I need USE="zlib" or USE="compress" or even a combo
> is a lot more effort and frustrating than having to enable the
> useflag that has the name of the module.
> 
> It might not be 'pure' or very aesthetical, but we try to get stuff
> done here.
> 
> 

I agree concering rewrite, USE=rewrite would be better suited for that.
But zlib is a very obvious choice of USE flag, and most of the other
flags I listed had (nearly) verbatim the same names as upstream's
modules anyway (perl, geoip, auth_pam -> pam, auth_ldap -> ldap).

I think the fact that we can use global USE's this way matters very
much. If enable geoip or ldap in my make.conf, I expect packages with
optional geoip/ldap support to enable this support.

Also, if you wish to document this mapping in more detail, that's
exactly what we have the <use> tags in metadata.xml for. You can even
write whole sentences in there! :)

Regards,
Luis Ressel