Ingmar Vanhassel schreef:
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 04:59:34PM +0100, Michael Croes wrote:
I guess you want to avoid what gentoo has these days with sdl: it has an
option video, audio and joystick, and if any of them is not enabled then
it'll start warning you that you're not supposed to turn these options off.
Obviously, the right approach here would be to default them to on and
there's one simple solution: prepend a "no" to the options, so it becomes
novideo, noaudio, nojoystick (for sdl). You can do the same thing, just
prepend "no" and the default off means that it's actually on ;-)
Regards,
Michael
no* options stink.
Top-posting doesn too. ;)
I was actually considering removing the entire message I was replying
on, but I felt top-posting was good enough for my superior solution :-D
. Honestly, I don't like no-options either, but when the defaults are
insane no-options and use -* make for a decent combo...
Gaute Hope schreef:
Greetings,
I have been following the development of Exherbo for a while and
written a few packages, my name is Gaute Hope and I am norwegian. That
should be the necessarry facts.
You probably noticed that I was asking the same thing on #exherbo
yesterday, but I still haven't gotten it all clear; the problem is: I
write a few packages and in addition to generic options like X, sdl or
so on; I also want to include a few more obscure ones. According to
Exheres for smarties I shouldn't really do this, and leave them to
their defaults. What I want to do is to add these options, but let
them be on by default, if '-flag' doesn't exist in options.conf. That
way the user wouldn't have to manually turn on features that 90% of
the users would want anyway. And the user who doesn't want it, doesn't
have to create a new exheres.
ciarnm spoke of existing mechanisms for this, but I cannot find them -
if they do.. consider this void and a pointer in the right direction
would be appreciated.
- gaute
You want profiles/base/package.use.
We don't have an IUSE-defaults equivalent because we haven't found a
proper use-case. This default state for options belongs in profiles, not
in the exheres.
How many profiles will there be by default? *All* gentoo profiles suck
regarding default options, so I always use -* and set what I like...
Also a lot of options have entirely different consequences for different
apps. Perhaps in combinations with sets it would be possible to create
sane defaults in profiles...
Regards,
Michael
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