Re: USE flags - why they won't work for OE

[Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>]

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 13:46 +0200, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> On 9/12/07, Stelios Koroneos <skoroneos@digital-opsis.com> wrote:
> That's exactly why I think the configuration namespace should not be
> performed in the package naming.
> 
> Although it might work for only a limited number of configuration
> items (no X, not GTK, no sound, ...) it quickly becomes hairy.
> 
> However, we could start this way, and tidy later.
> 
> It seems to be the way of least resistance at this point.
> 
> I will commit whatever I think is useful to others. I am sure at some
> point someone will stand up and disagree with me then :-)

Please don't start adding every possible variant of configure options as
things will quickly get insane. I think this is only going to be needed
in a handful of places as in most cases its possible to use a common set
of options. If I'm wrong about that we need to rethink.

On that note if anyone wants to start adding secondary (or more)
versions of a package in this manner please discuss it on this list
first.

Thanks,

Richard