Re: [gentoo-dev] Summary of suggested new features in EAPI="4"

2010-12-19 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 22:21 Sat 18 Dec , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:48:26 -0600 > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > I don't know of anyone who's actually done this, but setting IUSE > > based on ACCEPT_KEYWORDS being ~arch should be possible. There may be > > better or easier solutions. > > Uhm...

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summary of suggested new features in EAPI="4"

2010-12-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:48:26 -0600 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > I don't know of anyone who's actually done this, but setting IUSE > based on ACCEPT_KEYWORDS being ~arch should be possible. There may be > better or easier solutions. Uhm... IUSE has to be metadata-invariant. -- Ciaran McCreesh sign

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summary of suggested new features in EAPI="4"

2010-12-18 Thread Zac Medico
On 12/18/2010 01:57 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 18-12-2010 02:45:06 +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: >> >> Problem #1: USE flags cannot contain "." characters. >> >> The following solutions have been suggested: >> - Add support for "." characters in USE flags in EAPI="4". > > L

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summary of suggested new features in EAPI="4"

2010-12-18 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 18-12-2010 02:45:06 +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > > Problem #1: USE flags cannot contain "." characters. > > The following solutions have been suggested: > - Add support for "." characters in USE flags in EAPI="4". Like Donnie said, this feels like a purely cosmetic chan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summary of suggested new features in EAPI="4"

2010-12-17 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-12-18 03:48:26 Donnie Berkholz napisaƂ(a): > On 02:45 Sat 18 Dec , Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > > Problem #1: USE flags cannot contain "." characters. > > This isn't a problem, it's an arbitrary statement of an antifeature. My > understanding of the actual problem here is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summary of suggested new features in EAPI="4"

2010-12-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 02:45 Sat 18 Dec , Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > Problem #1: USE flags cannot contain "." characters. This isn't a problem, it's an arbitrary statement of an antifeature. My understanding of the actual problem here is that you want to have some sort of USE flags for various

[gentoo-dev] Summary of suggested new features in EAPI="4"

2010-12-17 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
This is the summary of some problems and suggested new features in EAPI="4", which would solve these problems. Problem #1: USE flags cannot contain "." characters. The following solutions have been