[oe] USE flags mumbling

[Graeme Gregory]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 09:50:11 -0700
Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Graeme Gregory <dp at xora.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > We already have BBCLASSEXTENDS which modifies ${PN} of a package and
> > can use overrides to change behaviors of recipes.
> >
> > Maybe USE flags could be implemented in a similar fashing.
> >
> > DISTRO_USE = "nossl nox11"
> >
> > EXTRA_OECONF_append_use-nossl = "--disable-ssl"
> >
> > ${PN} of the recipe becomes XXXX-nossl
> 
> 
> Any particular reason to not leverage the existing DISTRO_FEATURES,
> MACHINE_FEATURES, COMBINED_FEATURES for this?

No reason, doesn't really matter how the choices are generated.

G