On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:07 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Dnia 5 lutego 2016 07:38:44 CET, Jason Zaman <perfin...@gentoo.org> > napisał(a): >>On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 04:35:44PM -0600, Gordon Pettey wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 6:17 AM, Kent Fredric >><[1]kentfred...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>[ ... ] >>>> Its really sad we can't just have what Paludis does, package.use >>>> side >>>> support for USE_EXPAND. >>>> www-servers/nginx normal_use_flags NGINX_MODULES: http_access >>>> http_auth_basic http_autoindex >>>> Or similar. >>> >>> But we can do exactly that, as of at least portage-2.2.24, possibly >>> earlier. >> >>Whoa that I was unaware of. This is amazing and makes USE_EXPAND much >>less important to me :D > > Exactly. Furthermore, I wanted to deprecated setting flags via make.conf and > switch to pure package.use alike paludis but met the usual resistance.
I don't remember such a thread, but I'm not surprised. FWIW, I think the idea has merit.
