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

[José Bernardo Bandos Rodrigues]

May I add some noise into this argument? A few years ago I contributed to a
source based linux distro. The way we had around this weren't USE flags - we
had as part of the package description files (what you have in .bb files) a
file that had prompts to be given to the user at package configure time, and
what dependencies changed and what arguments were passed to ./configure as a
result of those prompts. Since this was at package configure time, and that
step would run before everything else, the user would get a bunch of prompts
at the beginning, and the results would be stored for future use. The user
could also specify a option to the package build tool to discard these
stored results and re-ask the prompts. A file with the stored dependencies
would also be updated as a result of this, by the dependency checking code
of the package builder. That file would allow one to examine/reproduce a
particular user configuration, if needed.

2007/9/12, Stelios Koroneos <skoroneos at digital-opsis.com>:
>
> > 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
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