From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EKIME-0007YH-7O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:31:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8RGNFQr015612; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:23:15 GMT Received: from ppsw-7.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw-7.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.137]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8RGLY8l007361 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:21:35 GMT X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Received: from 80-235-134-39.cable.ubr06.nail.blueyonder.co.uk ([80.235.134.39]:50839 helo=[192.168.1.200]) by ppsw-7.csi.cam.ac.uk (smtp.hermes.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.157]:465) with esmtpsa (PLAIN:spb42) (SSLv3:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1EKIIi-0005dx-NS (Exim 4.53) for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org (return-path ); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:27:30 +0100 Message-ID: <433972E0.60203@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:27:12 +0100 From: Stephen Bennett User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND) References: <200509271823.25788.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <200509271242.05438@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <200509272151.17297.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <200509271544.17173@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <843E5A1C-7514-4E4F-891B-999E57CA8D0C@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <843E5A1C-7514-4E4F-891B-999E57CA8D0C@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "S.P. Bennett" X-Archives-Salt: 5a0d022f-2ae6-4d71-b4e1-24b094ccbdfa X-Archives-Hash: 50c65feee1044bb264e81fcff1b87157 Kito wrote: > My impression of the userland, elibc, and kernel use expanded vars is > it was a quick way to sidestep some of the issues with GLEP22... That was pretty much my thinking when I put them there, yes. It's nothing like an ideal solution, but current portage didn't (and to my knowledge still doesn't) allow for anything better. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list