On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 16:28 +0000, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:12:32AM -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 00:48 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > > On Monday 28 November 2005 00:05, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > > > 3) FEATURES="noman" is dropped in favour of USE="man" or USE="manpages" > > > > > > > > In light of the above requirements and the fact that dyn_* will likely > > > > be > > > > moved into the tree down the track, #3 seems to be the best in my mind. > > > > Similarly, it would solve the previously discussed problems related to > > > > FEATURES="test". > > this seems like the best idea imo too ... > > > > I'd be very interested in people's thoughts on this. The more I think > > > about > > > it, the more I think it's the most appropriate solution. Nothing in > > > FEATURES="noman nodoc noinfo test" affects portage whatsoever other than > > > "noinfo" which (only recently) prevents emerge from regenerating info > > > indexes. That one could be handled by a hook (although not yet available) > > > and > > > the rest could easily be switched to USE flags. > > > > USE=(man|info|doc) wont quite work. > > While they could have an advantage that you can use them to control > > depend strings the doc use flag has already been heavily used for other > > things which everybody surely wont want. > > i dont see what USE=doc has to do with this ? doc should never be used > to control manpages in ebuilds now ...
The 3 no* features in question. Removing just one would be silly. So they either all should go or all stay. If noman were to become USE=man then logic would say that nodoc would become USE=doc and noinfo would become USE=info. Unless we want to call them USE=(docpages|manpages|infopages) all respectively then it wont matter so much. But then USE=-* emerge foo would all of the sudden make USE=-* kinda suck for users who just want to escape the normal default-linux USE flag bloat. -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
