Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-28 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 15:23, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Jason Stubbs wrote: > | On Wednesday 28 September 2005 13:19, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > | IUSE="baz bop" > | iuse_expand VIDEO_CARDS foo bar > > This has the ring of hack to me, if it's something to be used in ebuilds. USE_EXPAND was a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Stubbs wrote: | On Wednesday 28 September 2005 13:19, Donnie Berkholz wrote: | IUSE="baz bop" | iuse_expand VIDEO_CARDS foo bar This has the ring of hack to me, if it's something to be used in ebuilds. |>In addition, it saves IUSE from having

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 13:19, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Jason Stubbs wrote: > | What are the exact reasons for not wanting to put the expanded flags > | directly into IUSE? If it's just a matter of the horrid display existing > | tools would give, the functionality can go in and IUSE updat

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 12:58, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 00:35, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > IUSE_VIDEO_CARDS="radeon sis mga" > > IUSE_INPUT_DEVICES="synaptics wacom" > > So, my patch (even though it works) puts these flags into an IUSE_EXPAND > variable and would r

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Stubbs wrote: | What are the exact reasons for not wanting to put the expanded flags directly | into IUSE? If it's just a matter of the horrid display existing tools would | give, the functionality can go in and IUSE updated after the functional

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 00:35, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > IUSE_VIDEO_CARDS="radeon sis mga" > IUSE_INPUT_DEVICES="synaptics wacom" So, my patch (even though it works) puts these flags into an IUSE_EXPAND variable and would require an upgrade on the CVS server to get correct cache generation

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 10:23, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 00:35, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > What I have done in my ebuilds using USE_EXPAND is add extra IUSE-like > > variables, for example: > > > > IUSE_VIDEO_CARDS="radeon sis mga" > > IUSE_INPUT_DEVICES="synaptics

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 00:35, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > What I have done in my ebuilds using USE_EXPAND is add extra IUSE-like > variables, for example: > > IUSE_VIDEO_CARDS="radeon sis mga" > IUSE_INPUT_DEVICES="synaptics wacom" > > for `use video_cards_sis` etc.. > > This would allow for p

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Brian Harring
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:07:00AM -0500, Kito wrote: > [Portage devs please don't throw rocks at me] All out of rocks :/ > My impression of the userland, elibc, and kernel use expanded vars is > it was a quick way to sidestep some of the issues with GLEP22... it > would seem the full keywords

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Stephen Bennett
Kito wrote: My impression of the userland, elibc, and kernel use expanded vars is it was a quick way to sidestep some of the issues with GLEP22... That was pretty much my thinking when I put them there, yes. It's nothing like an ideal solution, but current portage didn't (and to my knowledge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Gianelloni wrote: | On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 19:12 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: |>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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Stubbs wrote: | Removing the QA check while the QA problem still exists is, in my mind, just | plain ludicrous. Removing the QA check once the QA problem is fixed doesn't | make much sense to me either. However, adjusting the check where necessa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 22:44, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 14:51, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > Variables are _not_ fine. I would think it should be clear to everybody > > by now that ebuilds can not pick random things from the computer they are > > installing on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 21:35, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 18:23 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > 1) What to do if nothing is set? > > 2) What to do if an invalid value is set? > > Install everything. If everything cannot be installed, due to > incompatibilities, then die.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Kito
On Sep 27, 2005, at 8:44 AM, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2005 14:51, Jason Stubbs wrote: Variables are _not_ fine. I would think it should be clear to everybody by now that ebuilds can not pick random things from the computer they are installing on to define ho

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 15:07 +0200, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:35:43 -0400 > Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Unfortunately, even trying to add -linguas_fr to package.use, > > still results in the French language pack being installed over > > the En

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 14:51, Jason Stubbs wrote: > Variables are _not_ fine. I would think it should be clear to everybody by > now that ebuilds can not pick random things from the computer they are > installing on to define how they will build. If variables are not fine, so can't be find th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:35:43 -0400 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, even trying to add -linguas_fr to package.use, > still results in the French language pack being installed over > the English. This reminds me bug #104573: it was the same problem where some LINGUAS=

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Jason Stubbs
Before you reply to this.. Can you enlighten me on what the solution to the problem is that you are heading toward? I'm having trouble seeing what your real point is. On Tuesday 27 September 2005 19:41, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 12:12, Jason Stubbs wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Chris Gianelloni
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 all

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 18:23 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > 1) What to do if nothing is set? Install everything. If everything cannot be installed, due to incompatibilities, then die. > 2) What to do if an invalid value is set? > >a) install everything Install everything. If everything canno

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 19:54, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 18:23:25 +0900 > > Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bug 23826: Give more visibility to ebuilds variables (ALSA_CARDS, > > etc.) > > So i don't think this bug is really relevant in this discussion

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 18:23:25 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bug 23826: Give more visibility to ebuilds variables (ALSA_CARDS, > etc.) Just to make it clear if it wasn't: although some comments made it derive toward USE_EXPANDed vars, the above bug was at the begining about advert

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 12:12, Jason Stubbs wrote: > 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? They are forced by the profile, as we don't want users to go away WITHOUT them when

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Jason Stubbs
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 fro

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
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 pe

[gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Jason Stubbs
Hello all, To shove under the rug: Bug 62001: Have portage QA checks consider USE_EXPAND Bug 70648: QA warnings about USE_EXPAND-derived use variables Bug 101998: Portage shouldn't warn on missing IUSE for USE_EXPAND To not shove under the rug: Bug 23826: Give more visibility to ebuilds variabl