[gentoo-dev] cups x86 USE flag.

[gentoo-dev] cups x86 USE flag.

[Max Kalika]

Greetings Gentoo devs.

I have a question as to why the new cups ebuild tests for x86 to determine
whether or not to depend on hotplug (and consequently usbutils and
pciutiles).  This flag is also not defined in IUSE.

The reason I bring this up is that on one machine I use cups as a print
server for a parallel printer and on another to connect to a network
enabled printer.  I don't need hotplug support for cups in either case, but
I can't really disable those dependencies because the x86 USE flag is a
rather useful thing to have turned on. :-)

Wouldn't this functionality be better achieved with a "usb" or "hotplug"
USE flag?  I realize that no such flag exists yet, but I can see it being
useful elsewhere so why not create it?

---max kalika
--max@lsit.ucsb.edu
-lsit systems administrator

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Re: [gentoo-dev] cups x86 USE flag.

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 27 January 2003 18:53, Max Kalika wrote:
> Greetings Gentoo devs.
>
> I have a question as to why the new cups ebuild tests for x86 to determine
> whether or not to depend on hotplug (and consequently usbutils and
> pciutiles).  This flag is also not defined in IUSE.
you dont define KEYWORDS in IUSE ... its a test for arch, not for USE

> Wouldn't this functionality be better achieved with a "usb" or "hotplug"
> USE flag?  I realize that no such flag exists yet, but I can see it being
> useful elsewhere so why not create it?
we have a bug open about a usb USE flag

> ---max kalika
> --max@lsit.ucsb.edu
> -lsit systems administrator
>
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