-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Zac Medico wrote: > Ryan Hill wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:31:46 -0700 >> Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> Can package.use syntax be extended to allow set entries? >>>> @compiz-fusion -gnome kde kde4 >>> Perhaps, but we need to clarify how that sort of setting will affect >>> nested sets. For example, if @compiz-fusion contains nested sets, >>> would those USE settings apply to the nested sets as well? Will >>> nested sets be allowed to have independent USE settings from the >>> sets that nest them? >> Maybe a nested set could inherit the USE flag settings of its parent set >> unless it has its own entry in package.use. > >> Though what happens if a package is in both sets which have >> conflicting flags in package.use? I would say that the nested set has >> to have priority. If not, I can easily imagine people getting confused >> when their USE settings for a set are being applied to all but >> one or two packages. > > It seems to me that the most logical approach would be to do some > sort of "incremental" stacking, similar to the way that USE flags > stack in the profiles. Suppose that we have the following settings > in package.use: > > @kde-meta foo bar > @kdeedu-meta -foo > > If the flags are stacked incrementally, analogously to the way that > they are stacked in profiles, then the above setting would apply the > "foo" and "bar" flags to all of @kde-meta except for the > @kdeedu-meta subset which would only have "bar" applied since "foo" > has been disabled incrementally. Does this approach seem reasonable?
This sounds a good approach. Ryan, I disagree with your proposal. If I enable a use flag for the "meta" @kde and also disable it for @kdenetwork, I don't expect my option for the @kde "meta" to override my option for @kdenetwork. As Zac proposed, an incremental stack makes more sense. Before we had sets, when we enabled a use flag for a meta and disabled it for an ebuild pulled by the meta, we never expected the option for the ebuild to be overridden by the option for the meta. - -- Regards, Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / SPARC / KDE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjkN0kACgkQcAWygvVEyAK2iQCcDgNPwNlgw3MfV1WZj+S6L+xW RZ4An0UONUAt60WeQAUbDk2rEMduUub9 =VYib -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
