On 03/28/2010 09:27 AM, Brian Harring wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 01:03:43AM -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote: >> I seriously hate changing USE flags for the sake of changing use >> flags. This provides a moderate amount of annoyance for anyone that >> maintains more then one Gentoo box because they need to then tinker >> with their /etc/make.conf and /etc/portage/package.use to get >> everything right again. And oh no what if the one box is on ~arch and >> one isn't and what if one is x86 and one isn't. Its just such a >> configuration nightmare. >> >> So unless there's any real benefit, I'm against this. > > I'm not arguing for arbitrary changes, but if the change makes sense > and isn't trivial it should be done. > > What is needed is to tweak the tools for such a move- specifically > adding a new command to the update machinery (profiles/updates). > Something roughly like > > usemove [atom] original_flag new_flag > > If an atom is specified, the move applies only to w/in that pkg; if no > atom, it's a global shift in the configuration (meaning all ebuilds > now use gtk instead of gtk2 for example). >
Filed Future EAPI request: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311731 > > USE_EXPAND, roughly- I wouldn't say it's fully there, but it certainly > would be where I'd start for any proposal... > A good point. So how about renaming gnutls openssl and nss to ssl_implementation_* to make the usage clear? Regards, Petteri
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