On 20/02/14 04:46 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Chris Reffett <creff...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> This does not affect sys-boot/grub's USE=multislot, as that >> does not mangle the SLOT value like the others (as I understand it). > > Right. USE=multislot on grub just toggles the renaming of the grub-foo > commands to grub2-foo, in case someone (like me) prefers the upstream > naming convention. There is also a conditional blocker on > sys-boot/grub:0. The SLOT value is always '2'. > > I would be happy to rename the use flag if anyone else has a better name for > it. >
All other packages use it to mean "make multiple versions in a single SLOT installable". I think "vanilla" should be used, or possibly a different local USE flag, like "grub2-bins". The argument of wanting this globally is not valid, since multislot should not be set globally either.
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