Dnia 2015-06-23, o godz. 01:23:13
Jason Zaman <ja...@perfinion.com> napisał(a):

> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:55:45PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Dnia 2015-06-22, o godz. 16:38:30
> > Jason Zaman <perfin...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I want to add STRONGSWAN_PLUGINS to USE_EXPAND. This is related to bug
> > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504942
> > > "net-misc/strongswan missing USE flags for plugins"
> > > 
> > > Patrick said to fix it myself, the ebuilds with the plugins have
> > > been in the tree for a fair while now and only the USE_EXPAND is
> > > missing.
> > > 
> > > If there are no objections, I will commit the following patch on friday:
> > 
> > USE_EXPAND is global by its nature. USE flags used by a single package
> > are not appropriate for making global.
> 
> Since when? There are so many things in USE_EXPAND that are only for a
> single package.

Not sure when. But the policies about USE flags were in the devmanual
long before I came here.

> APACHE2_MODULES, NGINX_MODULES_HTTP, COLLECTD_PLUGINS, QEMU_*, etc.
> Easily half of the things in USE_EXPAND are for only a single package.

Past screwups don't justify future screwups.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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