On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 22:21, Ian Leitch wrote: > I always put IUSE at the top of my ebuilds even if it doesn't use any. > The benefit being that anyone who ventures into the ebuild can see > straight away if/what USE flags it has. > Its still very obvious the package doesn't use USE flags if IUSE isn't > in there, but I think its good to be clear/definate/organized/what ever. > The same should go for all other variables IMO, if they are unused set > them "".
I have to agree. The ONLY time IUSE should be left out is when the ebuild calls an eclass which sets IUSE (such as games) and the ebuild uses the same USE variables as the eclass. > On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 00:37, Alastair Tse wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I've come across a peculiar inconsistency with one tiny aspect of the > > Gentoo Development Policy which would probably bore everyone except for > > the most pedantic and anal developers. > > > > I was reading through the Gentoo Developer HOWTO (aka. Ebuild HOWTO)[1] > > as all developers should (yes, I'm looking at you ;) and found that the > > field IUSE is declared as an optional field. > > > > I've brought this up on gentoo-doc and also on bugzilla[2], but there > > doesn't seem to be any authoritative answer on whether IUSE should be > > included even if a package does not use and USE flags. > > > > From a earlier revision (1.13) of the Developer Policy, it says: > > > > IUSE : This is set to what USE variables your package uses. If your > > package uses none, you must set it to IUSE="". > > > > However, the current document states that: > > > > IUSE : OPT : This is set to whatever USE variables your package > > utilizes. Remember that KEYWORDS should not be listed in here! > > > > (where OPT = optional) > > > > Now, which one is right? Should we include IUSE="" if there are no USE > > variables being used, or should we just remove them? > > > > I don't mind either way, because adding an extra 7 characters to an > > ebuild doesn't do me or a user a great deal of harm. But it would be > > nice to be clear on what the policy should be. > > > > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-howto.xml > > [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34131 > > > > Cheers, -- Chris Gianelloni Developer, Gentoo Linux Games Team Is your power animal a penguin?
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