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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Cc: Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Addressing split usage of USE=gles[123]
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:09:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdQ38HPjmY2JoruRk5NyUL782--LvRvOXN-jvKoU8d3t-9xZA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3510669.sfXIqWOT4O@ernie>

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 4:54 PM Dennis Schridde <devurandom@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> On Donnerstag, 21. November 2019 09:11:46 CET Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> > See also this related old thread:
> > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/e04f6d321e424a237af62721d1d09
> > 211
>
> I think tackling the triad of opengl/gles, egl/glx, X/wayland is also a good
> idea.  Generally, all these probably have to distinguish between "support for
> XYZ" and "use only XYZ", the latter hopefully being the exception, so that the
> former can take the shorter use-flag.  That's what I don't like about the
> proposal from 2018: Globally enabling USE=gles will have different effects on
> different packages.  That's also what I like about the recent proposal: The
> flags are more explicit.

Totally agree. FWIW, we have bugs filed about this for USE=wayland [0]
and USE=USE={egl,gles{,1,2,3}}.

I would be happy to see someone take up this project. I'll be happy to help.

[0] https://bugs.gentoo.org/627714
[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/627758


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-21 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-21  3:32 [gentoo-dev] Addressing split usage of USE=gles[123] Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier
2019-11-21  7:24 ` Dennis Schridde
2019-11-21  8:11 ` Mart Raudsepp
2019-11-21 21:53   ` Dennis Schridde
2019-11-21 22:05     ` Michael 'veremitz' Everitt
2019-11-21 22:09     ` Matt Turner [this message]
2019-11-24 17:30       ` Matt Turner
2019-11-21 16:45 ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-11-21 19:26 ` Matt Turner

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