On 04/30/2011 02:47 PM, Ole Markus With wrote: > Hi all, > > I was thinking of adding SVN snapshot ebuilds of PHP to the tree. > Ebuilds for PHP extensions use USE_EXPAND to decide which slots (and > thus, which ABIs) of PHP the extension should be built for, much like > ruby does. A new USE_EXPAND USE flag should therefore be added for the > SVN snapshot slot. The problem is that the ABI is not stable and should > only be used by people who 'know what they are doing', and the snapshot > ebuilds will probably always be without keywords. This will cause some > dependency problems. > > The only solution I could think of would be to add this new USE flag to > use.mask. But as far as I could tell, use.mask is meant for masking USE > flags that do not work on certain architectures etc. It is also a bit > tricky for users to unmask USE flags. > > Is this still the best way to do this? Or are there any better ways that > I did not think of? > > Cheers, > Ole Markus >
I don't see that this is much different in philosophy than p.masking experimental/broken ebuilds which we add to the tree for dev only testing. In both cases a user who thinks they 'know what they're doing' can locally unmask, at their own risk. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail : bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 8040 5A4D 8709 21B1 1A88 33CE 979C AF40 D045 5535 GnuPG ID : D0455535
