On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 16:53 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > What next? A USE flag for every single features setting in vim? That'd > be over a hundred and thirty new USE flags (ooh, and since both vim and > gvim use them, they'd be globals of course), and since USE flags are > great this would be a huge gain for Gentoo!
> I'll also be petitioning for USE flags to control whether or not each
> individual icon graphic gets installed with sylpheed-claws. I don't use
> some of those icons, so including them is bloat.
I think there are times when you should re-read what your sending before
you actually send it. There is constructive criticism and then there is
childish argument.
As I requested in a previous post, it is there for a few reasons. It is
a key phase in automating the process of kernel upgrades. For example..
something along the lines of:
#!/bin/bash
USE="symlink" emerge ${1:-sys-kernel/gentoo-sources}
genkernel --no-menuconfig --install
for I in $(</var/lib/modules)
do
module_list="${module_list} ${I}"
done
emerge --nodeps ${module_list}
and that module list is populated (or removed) when the user
merges/unmerges a module. (postinst, postrm)
will download, compile and install a new kernel, and all modules which
are currently on the system.
As I also suggested in a previous post, if you can think of a more
intuitive way for the user to be able to do this, without the use of a
USE flag which is persistent and doesn't involved an external file,
please. Let me know. If its viable, I will migrate the functionality to
that.
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