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 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 sounds interesting.

[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 handled

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 tools to

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 we have now is

[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,

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. Another

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 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. I could be

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 a