Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: use flags -> use options

2007-10-09 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marius Mauch wrote: > So what you want is a USE_EXPAND version that only allows one value > per variable. That wouldn't be terribly difficult to do. I extremely dislike that characterization. What I want is use flags with more than two possible values

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: use flags -> use options

2007-10-08 Thread Marius Mauch
On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:45:04 +0200 "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Marius Mauch wrote: > >>> "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I imagine there are a lot more cases where the simple on/off > system

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: use flags -> use options

2007-10-08 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Hill wrote: > Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: >> Marius Mauch wrote: > >>> We already have this with USE_EXPAND. Not exactly the same syntax, but >>> I don't see a terrible problem in that, and we don't have to fix all >>> three trillion related t

[gentoo-dev] Re: use flags -> use options

2007-10-08 Thread Ryan Hill
Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: > Marius Mauch wrote: >> We already have this with USE_EXPAND. Not exactly the same syntax, but >> I don't see a terrible problem in that, and we don't have to fix all >> three trillion related tools to handle it. Unless you can come up >> with a case that can't be h

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: use flags -> use options

2007-10-08 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marius Mauch wrote: >>> "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I imagine there are a lot more cases where the simple on/off system we have now is suboptimal. I could be wrong of course. Please comment. >>> This key=value systems

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: use flags -> use options

2007-10-07 Thread Drake Wyrm
Jan Kundr?t <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tobias Klausmann wrote: > > For those apps that need an editor, one could think of editor=vim. > > USE flag change usually triggers a rebuild of the package in question. I > certainly don't want to rebuild packages just because I switch $EDITOR. If there's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: use flags -> use options

2007-10-07 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 21:12:25 +0200 Tobias Klausmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, 07 Oct 2007, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > > > "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I imagine there are a lot more cases where the simple on/off > > > system we have now is suboptimal

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: use flags -> use options

2007-10-07 Thread Jan Kundrát
Tobias Klausmann wrote: > For those apps that need an editor, one could think of editor=vim. USE flag change usually triggers a rebuild of the package in question. I certainly don't want to rebuild packages just because I switch $EDITOR. Cheers, -jkt -- cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: use flags -> use options

2007-10-07 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Sun, 07 Oct 2007, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I imagine there are a lot more cases where the simple on/off system > > we have now is suboptimal. I could be wrong of course. Please comment. > > This key=value systems sounds interesting

[gentoo-dev] Re: use flags -> use options

2007-10-07 Thread Christian Faulhammer
"Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I imagine there are a lot more cases where the simple on/off system > we have now is suboptimal. I could be wrong of course. Please comment. This key=value systems sounds interesting. Another use could be the choice between xulrunner, seamonkey, f