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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] why is '@' allowed in use flags
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 00:29:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100607072946.GG6316@hrair> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100607082647.310ba5da@snowcone>

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On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 08:26:47AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 22:23:03 -0700
> Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anyone know where '@' in use flags came from?  Last I knew, the 
> > intention of '@' was to be used as a seperator/marker for use groups; 
> > it currently has zero users in gentoo-x86, thus I'm wondering 
> > where/why it was originally allowed.
> 
> Linguas.

Fark.  Knew I was forgetting to grep somewhere...

Follow up discussion point; anyone got a character to use for 
seperating use_expand groups and their members?  I'm well aware '_' is 
used right now, but it's use is nonoptimal- the only way to break down 
a use_expanded target in IUSE is to know the use_expand grouppings 
themselves, which is profile defined... a flaw I've hated since day 
one.

~harring

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-07  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-07  5:23 [gentoo-pms] why is '@' allowed in use flags Brian Harring
2010-06-07  7:26 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-06-07  7:29   ` Brian Harring [this message]
2010-06-07  7:33     ` Ciaran McCreesh

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