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

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

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Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org> writes:

> 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.

Let's do USE=uefi please - UEFI is the modern name for it, and EFI is
legacy. I'd like to avoid another USE=ssl situation (where we're
stuck with it forever given we have no mechanism for USE flag renames,
despite the fact that it's really TLS now).

thanks,
sam

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