From: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: Make `native-extensions` flag global
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2023 08:44:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <851939c3-6cdd-4fce-a040-f247d0c0132a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231105054235.312999-1-mgorny@gentoo.org>
On 11/5/23 1:42 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> Make the `native-extensions` flag global. It is used in 15 Python
> packages to enable building optional C extensions, though the global
> description also allows for other "native" and "pure" languages.
>
> In 9 cases, the flag description explicitly mentions "speedups", so this
> is the primary case used in global description. There is one case
> of the extension providing extra features, and the remaining cases
> do not explain its role.
The USE flag's name inherently feels like something aligned with
building speedups, so why not dedicate it to that purpose? It feels
confusing to have a global USE that does different things for different
packages.
It sounds like just renaming a single USE flag -- peewee from
"native-extensions" to "sqlite-ext" -- would be enough to allow nicer
semantics here.
--
Eli Schwartz
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-05 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-05 5:42 [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: Make `native-extensions` flag global Michał Górny
2023-11-05 6:08 ` Oskari Pirhonen
2023-11-05 12:00 ` Michał Górny
2023-11-05 13:44 ` Eli Schwartz [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=851939c3-6cdd-4fce-a040-f247d0c0132a@gmail.com \
--to=eschwartz93@gmail.com \
--cc=gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox