Subject: Re: IUSE variable clarification
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
Date: 2003-01-08 14:59:06 GMT (6 years, 25 weeks, 3 days, 15 hours and 39 minutes ago)
> I'm curious about what the IUSE flag should be set to in an ebuild. > Does it contain all possible values that the package could use or > should it contain conditional type statements? ie. If a package > needs ncurses, and could possibly use ipv6 and socks5 as a configure > option should it be > > IUSE="ncurses ipv6 socks5" USE flags per definition define _optional_ features. So in your case, if the package _requires_ ncurses, you don't list it in IUSE (since you don't even pay attention to the "ncurses" USE flag anyway). -- Maik Schreiber, Gentoo Linux Developer * http://www.gentoo.org mailto:blizzy <at> gentoo.org GPG public key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x1F11D713 Key fingerprint: CF19 AFCE 6E3D 5443 9599 18B5 5640 1F11 D713