Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/1]: profiles/use.desc: add efi global use flag

[Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org>]

On 14/07/2023 11:05, David Seifert wrote:
> On Thu, 1970-01-01 at 00:00 +0000, Andrew Ammerlaan wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Currently we have 7 packages defining the efi flag and an additional 2
>> defining the uefi flag. These flags do the same thing, add support for
>> (U)EFI booting. I therefore propose we introduce efi as a new global
>> flag and later rename the uefi flag to efi in sys-apps/fwupd and
>> sys-apps/ipmicfg.
>>
>> I don't have a strong preference between the efi or uefi flags, but
>> since a majority of the packages has chosen efi I suggest we go with
>> that.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Andrew
> 
> Please switch to "uefi". UEFI is the forward going name and more aligned
> with how it's used commonly. It's called the "UEFI forum" that writes
> the UEFI spec and it's on uefi.org. A GPU needs a UEFI GOP to
> initialise.
> 

Alright, that's fine by me. The list of packages that needs renaming of 
the use flag then becomes:
- app-emulation/xen
- sys-block/perccli
- sys-block/sas2ircu
- sys-block/sas3flash
- sys-block/sas3ircu
- sys-boot/syslinux
- sys-firmware/ipxe

 From 681c82d6bc415b9d9f25077e0c32f629cd9a42ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 10:47:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] profiles/use.desc: add uefi global use flag

Signed-off-by: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org>
---
  profiles/use.desc | 1 +
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/profiles/use.desc b/profiles/use.desc
index df2115388949..6034f3bf6fc3 100644
--- a/profiles/use.desc
+++ b/profiles/use.desc
@@ -328,6 +328,7 @@ tk - Add support for Tk GUI toolkit
  truetype - Add support for FreeType and/or FreeType2 fonts
  udev - Enable virtual/udev integration (device discovery, power and 
storage device support, etc)
  udisks - Enable storage management support (automounting, volume 
monitoring, etc)
+uefi - Enable support for the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
  unicode - Add support for Unicode
  unwind - Add support for call stack unwinding and function name resolution
  upnp - Enable UPnP port mapping support
-- 
2.41.0