On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 19:12 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 18:38, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 11:23, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > > So what needs to be done to fix it? Well, what is the purpose of > > > USE_EXPAND? Put simply, it is to allow the user to select one or more > > > features of a package from a list of choices. How is this different to > > > USE flags? The choices all pertain to one aspect of the package(s). > > > > The way ELIBC, KERNEL, USERLAND are used, is instead something different. > > They don't allow users to select what they want, they allow profiles to > > declare what they are created for. > > Which leads me to the one thing I didn't say but feel strongest about.. What > is the real point of USE_EXPAND? What can/does it do that USE flags do not?
As far as I can tell, it was created to keep people from adding a huge number of USE flags to IUSE on a package. I can't see any other reason for it. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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