From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EIjqr-0003jq-8m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:28:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8N9LLJS019792; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:21:21 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8N9Jf39013352 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:19:41 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EIjoc-0002sD-Iz for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:25:58 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EIjmg-0004hb-Is for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:23:58 +0200 Received: from ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.97.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:23:58 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:23:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Two-level USE-flag system VAR: USE="minimal" for kernel sources Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 02:22:05 -0700 Organization: Sometimes Message-ID: References: <431C97C4.3070406@gentoo.org> <200509231019.16895.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <200509231644.47078.jstubbs@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 976d0c31-7992-4c55-b5dc-f0293d75e4e3 X-Archives-Hash: 1f2cf3d96b24bbc6b64bb924cb334074 Jason Stubbs posted <200509231644.47078.jstubbs@gentoo.org>, excerpted below, on Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:44:44 +0900: > There's absolutely no work required on portage to support USE flag > "categories". There's nothing preventing a "/" character from appearing in > a USE flag, hence the support is there already. It's not treated as some sort of metacharacter or otherwise currently input filtered, then, I take it. > The work would come in adjusting every ebuild to use the different > name as well as killing backward compatibility with already installed > packages and binary packages. ... and existing make.confs and package.uses, of course... Good point. It'd certainly be lots of work, and I can envision the discussions over whether various flags belong in this or that category, and where to put the ones that don't seem to fit a category, but it might be worth it in terms of clarity and ease of use (or maybe not, as the PHP example points out). -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list