On 9/20/19 8:46 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > Recently, a large number of bugs were filed against packages that have > USE flag names which contain underscores. Apparently PMS prohibits > this except when the USE flag is part of a USE_EXPAND variable. > > https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/7/pms.html#x1-200003.1.4 > > I'm not certain when this text was added to PMS, or how many of the > affected USE flags pre-date this policy. > > Portage seems to have no issue dealing with underscores, so this > doesn't seem to be solving any technical problem. > > I am pretty sure that renaming a bunch of USE flags will cause some > amount of end-user confusion, for very little benefit. Is enforcing > this part of PMS really worth it?
If we take this underscore rule to its logical extreme, then we should rename python_targets_python3_7 to python_targets_python3-7, yes? -- Thanks, Zac
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