RE: [gentoo-dev] USE settings for specific apps

[Sean Mitchell <SMitchell@phoenix-interactive.com>]

>     Some people have suggested that they would like to be 
> able to set some
> USE variables for specific apps.....examples escape me, but I 
> know it has
> been brought up.
> 
>     Anyways, I was thinking something along these lines would work:
> 
> ----
> # Global settings
> USE = "this that other etc"
> 
> # App specific
> USE-mozilla = "!this !that foo"
> ----
> 
> Basicaly, the syntax would be "USE-<appname>".  This portion should be
> simple enough to impliment, however the variables pose more 
> of a problem
> since you dont want to have to repeat all of the normal USE 
> settings for a
> specific app and most of the time you just want to specify a 
> USE setting not
> to use (hence the !'s).  Special vars might be good here too, like
> "defaults" to inherit all the global USE settings...or 
> "no-defaults" to
> ignore them all...
> 
> .....thats the general idea....comments?

I don't like the idea of making app-specific settings in a global file. For
my money I think that a command line switch to emerge/ebuild to turn certain
USE variables on or off would be better. The idea that a user ALWAYS or
NEVER wants to use a particular thing seems a bit rigid to me.

Sean

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