[oe] USE flags - why they won't work for OE

Stelios Koroneos skoroneos at digital-opsis.com
Wed Sep 12 05:55:10 UTC 2007


> Let's at least come up with a good way of using the namespace:
>
> -lite has been suggested, which I do not prefer (ambiguous, and I
> would prefer -light)
> -nodbus (if dbus dependency is dropped)
>
> I would prefer using:
>
> -without-x
> -without-gtk
> -without-dbus
> ...
>
> as the package suffix, as it re-uses the "configure" options
> namespace, well known to most developers.

Both comments are correct, but what happens in the case we have a package
with multiple -without-xyz ?


Stelios S. Koroneos

Digital OPSiS - Embedded Intelligence
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