On 08/20/2015 07:42 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > Hi, > > Right now, a number of game packages are using USE=dedicated to control > 'installing a dedicated game server only'. Aside to that, some game > packages also have USE=server that controls building the server itself. > Non-game package use USE=client and USE=server. > > In order to improve uniformity of USE flags across different packages, > the QA team would like to deprecate USE=dedicated and use USE=client > and USE=server as appropriate. > > The problems I see with USE=dedicated are: > > - it is game-specific. The term 'dedicated server' is not used amongst > other server/client model packages. > > - It uses negative logic. Instead of enabling something, it disables > client. Pretty much 'dedicated' == 'noclient'. Negative logic is > confusing. > > - In packages having USE=server as well, it can lead to really absurd > combinations, like what does 'USE=dedicated -server' mean? Will it > build no executables at all? If we add REQUIRED_USE='dedicated? > ( server )', this gets quite unfriendly. > > As an alternative, we would use USE=client and USE=server along with > proper IUSE defaults to control client & server builds appropriately. > Both flags use positive logic, and REQUIRED_USE='|| ( client server )' > is rather clear. > > Does anyone see any real problems with that? >
That increases the burden of managing configuration and further abuses REQUIRED_USE where it wasn't meant to be used in the first place. USE="dedicated" has worked fine for games users and no one has ever complained. In fact, it is a _very_ convenient USE flag, which means "no manual fiddling, this will be dedicated for sure". -1
