| Summary: | organize use flags in tree | ||
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| Product: | Portage Development | Reporter: | Benjamin Paul Kay <kc8tbe> |
| Component: | Enhancement/Feature Requests | Assignee: | Portage team <dev-portage> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
this has already been done in GLEP 29 |
As the number of use flags increase, and as use flags themselves change or become deprecated, it would be nice to organize use flags in a "tree" hierarchy. Perhaps use flags could be in their own file (e.g. /etc/make.conf.use) and organized much like the kernel's config; for example: CONFIG_AUDIO CONFIG_AUDIO_ARTS CONFIG_AUDIO_ESD CONFIG_VIDEO CONFIG_VIDEO_FRAMEBUFFER CONFIG_VIDEO_DIRECTFB CONFIG_VIDEO_BOOTSPLASH CONFIG_X CONFIG_DGA CONFIG_GLUT By disabling CONFIG_AUDIO (equivalent to USE="-audio"), the user would know for sure that things like sound daemons have also been disabled. This reduces the number of use flags a user has to look at while installing Gentoo, and it also makes it easier for developers to add/deprecate/change use flags. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.