Hi Stuart, can you take a look at the USE Variable HOWTO and then give me a writeup on the USE flags that you have added into use.desc? Just plain text will do. Cheers
copied from email sent to gentoo-core At the moment there are only 3 flags related to CJK: cjk, canna and freewnn. All three flags should probably go in the "Other Useful Flags section" cjk is used to add Japanese, Chinese or Korean specific support (rather than the broader nls support) to the following packages: php, mod_php, w3m, and mutt. It probably should also be used for the korean patch for gaim also. The cjk, partially files a hole in portage at the moment - letting a user chose one or more languages for support. The addition of a LANG variable would be a better solution, I think, and would allow the removal of this flag. canna and freewnn are only used in kinput2. kinput2 can use either or both of these conversion engines, but the decision must be made at compile time. This was the only way I could think to get around not making the user install both conversion engines. If anyone else has a more elegant solution I'm more than willing to retire these flags. Stuart Bouyer (aka StuBear)
Stuart, I rather think you can just have one of the two flags and still accomplish the goal. What I would do is make a flag for the more popular of the two alternatives, and then: use that || whatever_options_for_the_other_one waddayathink?
Seemant, How do we handle the case when the user wants both engines installed then? Kinput can be compiled with support for canna or freewnn or canna + freewnn ( the user then chooses which to use at run time with a flag). Actually there are 2 or three others that it can also use, but they are commercial variants ans aren't as popular on Linux/FreeBSD. The either/or choice is easy with one flag, but I couldn't figure out how to add support for both with only 1 flag. It would be nice if we could do something like USE="kengine={canna, freewnn, skk}". This would also be a great option for language support USE="nls={jp, en, de}" to get support for Japanese, English and German.
zhen, please append to the USE HOWTO...
I added stubear's flags to the guide under the "other useful flags section". Take a look and see how it looks... //ZhEN
Created attachment 3874 [details, diff] added all the new USE variable from the use.desc
Eric, Once again, good job, I will take a look at this and add it to the USE doc. //ZhEN
Hey Eric, what version of the doc were you using? Was it after my submissions? Reason i'm asking is because the patch failed. If you need the latest guide from cvs, you can mail me, or just grab it from cvs ;-) Thanks, //ZhEN
Created attachment 3899 [details, diff] add use flags to use howto sorry the first patch was to add use variables to the devel guide this one adds them to the use guide
Commited the changes. //ZhEN
I commited this. //ZhEN
