From: Terje Kvernes <terjekv@math.uio.no>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE variable clarification
Date: 08 Jan 2003 20:18:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wxxvg0zxxew.fsf@nommo.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030108090422.A21048@twobit.net>
Nick Jones <carpaski@twobit.net> writes:
> It should contain _EVERY_ reference you make to a USE variable. So
> if you check ncurses, it contains ncurses... if you check gtk, it
> contains gtk. It's presently unused, but required for upcoming
> features like rebuild-on-use-change.
isn't the IUSE-variable really redundant? shouldn't portage be able
to get the USE-flags directly from the ebuilds DEPEND-statement
without adding an IUSE-kludge? as far as I can tell IUSE just moves
the work of maintaining this list from portage to the ebuild
maintainer, who now has to update both DEPEND and IUSE.
there is no doubt that portage needs the functionality IUSE
provides, I'm just sceptical to the way that functionality is being
provided.
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Terje
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-08 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-08 14:31 [gentoo-dev] IUSE variable clarification Burton Samograd
2003-01-08 14:59 ` Maik Schreiber
2003-01-09 16:44 ` Burton Samograd
2003-01-09 17:00 ` [gentoo-dev] " Wilbert Berendsen
2003-01-09 17:05 ` Maik Schreiber
2003-01-09 17:06 ` Yannick Koehler
2003-01-09 17:03 ` [gentoo-dev] " Maik Schreiber
2003-01-08 15:04 ` Nick Jones
2003-01-08 19:18 ` Terje Kvernes [this message]
2003-01-08 19:52 ` Felipe Ghellar
2003-01-08 20:11 ` Terje Kvernes
2003-01-09 15:42 ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-01-09 21:05 ` Bob Phan
2003-01-09 22:35 ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-01-10 12:28 ` Bob Phan
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