Re: USE flags mumbling

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <mickey@vanille-media.de>]

Am Donnerstag, den 01.07.2010, 23:29 +0100 schrieb Phil Blundell:
> On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 15:16 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > One of the issues with some form of USE flags, and I believe this is one 
> > of the big ones for Angstrom as well as any other public feed publishing 
> > distribution is that having a single recipe that does different things 
> > based on variables makes maintaining their feed (and allowing users to 
> > publish their own compatible feeds) a nightmare.
> 
> It's only a nightmare if the flags in question are user-frobbable.  If
> they are all nailed down in the DISTRO configuration (which
> DISTRO_FEATURES certainly ought to be), and those folks who want to
> build compatible binaries just leave them alone, then there oughtn't to
> be any real problem.  To that extent it doesn't really seem any
> different to the choice of compiler or tuning flags or glibc version or
> any of the other ways in which you can already produce incompatible
> binaries by flipping the wrong switches.

Agreed. I think we should be more open to this concept. At least for
packages with optional (but "infecting") X11 support -- such as EFL -- I
plan to use such a mechanism soon.

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