From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 707CD138334 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 15:46:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7EC41E0899; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 15:46:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 23D5EE087D for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 15:46:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-io1-f44.google.com (mail-io1-f44.google.com [209.85.166.44]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: floppym) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E9B5734B727 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 15:46:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-io1-f44.google.com with SMTP id j4so17128932iog.11 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 08:46:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAWIJ/cB/GzeF8Zyn/ocv2rYFolJXLvuZcqXTPaKwNoqaRKS+xfr h6TmnQIAUW//dNsbwmkmIl9Du2sHUNgrM864FqU= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqzBEZe0Sv/0tQ92UwgEPBIoYmq1fiaKLv5JDu+k0T9QAilhpKktvrlTiPPv8vm5IDJnYg7P2TO8MGKB7ccZljg= X-Received: by 2002:a6b:6f02:: with SMTP id k2mr19613790ioc.30.1568994371563; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 08:46:11 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Mike Gilbert Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 11:46:00 -0400 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-dev] Underscores in USE flags To: Gentoo Dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: 7b07c96e-3c16-4ff4-911e-18844fc18e1b X-Archives-Hash: d86232277be6bb38076a089ed626ed71 Recently, a large number of bugs were filed against packages that have USE flag names which contain underscores. Apparently PMS prohibits this except when the USE flag is part of a USE_EXPAND variable. https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/7/pms.html#x1-200003.1.4 I'm not certain when this text was added to PMS, or how many of the affected USE flags pre-date this policy. Portage seems to have no issue dealing with underscores, so this doesn't seem to be solving any technical problem. I am pretty sure that renaming a bunch of USE flags will cause some amount of end-user confusion, for very little benefit. Is enforcing this part of PMS really worth it?