[gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND / USE 'configuration space' refactoring.

2012-09-13 Thread Brian Harring
Hola. CC'ing pms since obviously they should comment, although the discussion should be on -dev (aka, public, not an alias). Sorry, this is a long email; condensing it down into a glep is viable, just my time is limited (it's telling I started the gentoo stuff at 2am, wrapping up likely at

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND / USE 'configuration space' refactoring.

2012-09-13 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 03:39 -0700, Brian Harring wrote: Hola. CC'ing pms since obviously they should comment, although the discussion should be on -dev (aka, public, not an alias). Sorry, this is a long email; condensing it down into a glep is viable, just my time is limited (it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND / USE 'configuration space' refactoring: bikeshedding the separator

2012-09-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 03:39:19 -0700 Brian Harring ferri...@gmail.com wrote: 1) We disallow '@' in USE flags (yes, a use flag can actually have '@' in it's name according to PMS; someone was hitting the crack pipe pretty damn hard when they allowed that one). This doesn't impact anything in

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND / USE 'configuration space' refactoring: bikeshedding the separator

2012-09-13 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 04:24:27PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 03:39:19 -0700 Brian Harring ferri...@gmail.com wrote: 1) We disallow '@' in USE flags (yes, a use flag can actually have '@' in it's name according to PMS; someone was hitting the crack pipe pretty damn