On Fri, 2019-09-20 at 11:46 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > Recently, a large number of bugs were filed against packages that have > USE flag names which contain underscores. Apparently PMS prohibits > this except when the USE flag is part of a USE_EXPAND variable. > > https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/7/pms.html#x1-200003.1.4 > > I'm not certain when this text was added to PMS, or how many of the > affected USE flags pre-date this policy. > > Portage seems to have no issue dealing with underscores, so this > doesn't seem to be solving any technical problem. > > I am pretty sure that renaming a bunch of USE flags will cause some > amount of end-user confusion, for very little benefit. Is enforcing > this part of PMS really worth it?
And having packages with pretended-USE_EXPAND-that-does-not-work-as- USE_EXPAND is less confusing to the users? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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