[gobolinux-users] New release of Scripts and Compile

[Michael Homer]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Daniele Maccari <gobo.users at gmail.com> wrote:
> Michael Homer wrote:
>  >
>  >>  Finally we have use flags in Scripts and Compile. While not that
>  >>  many recipes or packages are updated to support this yet, it
>  >>  will be more common with time. Flags to be used on the system can
>  >>  be set in /System/Settings/UseFlags.conf or by setting the $USE
>  >>  environment variable. Look in the file for examples on how flags
>  >>  should be spedified in that file. For the environment variable
>  >>  flags are space separated and applied to applications with the
>  >>  '@' operator: export USE="+python -pam at KDE-Base"
>  >>  which will enable python for all programs, but disable pam for
>  >>  KDE-Base.
>  >>
>  > But please, people, use UseFlags.conf, that's what it's for. Exporting
>  > USE= something is just stupid, it's just for quick `USE=foo Compile
>  > MyNewLocalRecipe` testing of your recipes.
>  > -Michael
>  >
>  Oh, by the way, does a list of use flags exist?
Yes, here it is:

As you can see, it's quite short at the moment. We'll find out what
the flags are when people start using them in recipes; I can tell you
that there's going to be an "esound" flag, because I have a recipe
sitting here, but not much else. At some point we will have to
regulate a list of them, but I don't think it's wise to do that now
before we know which ones are going to be useful. So just make them up
according to the structure I described and we'll see what comes of it.
-Michael