Comments on: Dear idiot package maintainer: http://herself.movielady.net/2010/03/19/dear-idiot-package-maintainer/ Natterings on the state of my world Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:57:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Juan Francisco http://herself.movielady.net/2010/03/19/dear-idiot-package-maintainer/comment-page-1/#comment-13261 Juan Francisco Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:57:57 +0000 http://herself.movielady.net/?p=31#comment-13261 Thanks a lot for this post. Thanks a lot for this post.

]]> By: Dean Hall http://herself.movielady.net/2010/03/19/dear-idiot-package-maintainer/comment-page-1/#comment-12030 Dean Hall Sun, 30 May 2010 14:01:46 +0000 http://herself.movielady.net/?p=31#comment-12030 Found you on the googles. After your hint that NGINX_MODULES_HTTP is a USE_EXPAND variable (which I hadn't heard of before), I did a little looking and found this, , which I'm sure you also did. In /usr/portage/profiles/base/make.defaults, NGINX_MODULES_HTTP (and _MAIL) are already listed as USE_EXPAND variables, and, though I haven't seen any docs on USE_EXPAND, it doesn't seem necessary. Once I put the appropriate use flags into NGINX_MODULES_HTTP in /etc/make.conf, emerge appears to de-select the other use flags in NGINX_MODULES_HTTP, which is nice, since you can't specify "-useflag" in a USE_EXPAND variable. In my /etc/make.conf: NGINX_MODULES_HTTP='fastcgi gzip gzip-static realip stub_status uwsgi' Then to see what would happen: # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~amd64' emerge -pv nginx These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-vim/nginx-syntax-0.3.1 6 kB [ebuild N ] www-servers/nginx-0.8.38 USE="aio http http-cache pcre ssl vim-syntax -debug -ipv6 -libatomic" NGINX_MODULES_HTTP="fastcgi gzip realip stub_status uwsgi -access -addition -auth_basic -autoindex -browser -charset -dav -degradation -empty_gif -flv -geo -geoip -gzip_static -headers_more -image_filter -limit_req -limit_zone -map -memcached -passenger -perl -proxy -push -random_index -referer -rewrite -secure_link -split_clients -ssi -sub -upstream_ip_hash -userid -xslt" NGINX_MODULES_MAIL="-imap -pop3 -smtp" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" 725 kB Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 731 kB Found you on the googles.

After your hint that NGINX_MODULES_HTTP is a USE_EXPAND variable (which I hadn't heard of before), I did a little looking and found this, , which I'm sure you also did.

In /usr/portage/profiles/base/make.defaults, NGINX_MODULES_HTTP (and _MAIL) are already listed as USE_EXPAND variables, and, though I haven't seen any docs on USE_EXPAND, it doesn't seem necessary.

Once I put the appropriate use flags into NGINX_MODULES_HTTP in /etc/make.conf, emerge appears to de-select the other use flags in NGINX_MODULES_HTTP, which is nice, since you can't specify "-useflag" in a USE_EXPAND variable.

In my /etc/make.conf:

NGINX_MODULES_HTTP='fastcgi gzip gzip-static realip stub_status uwsgi'

Then to see what would happen:

# ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~amd64' emerge -pv nginx

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies… done!
[ebuild N ] app-vim/nginx-syntax-0.3.1 6 kB
[ebuild N ] www-servers/nginx-0.8.38 USE="aio http http-cache pcre ssl vim-syntax -debug -ipv6 -libatomic" NGINX_MODULES_HTTP="fastcgi gzip realip stub_status uwsgi -access -addition -auth_basic -autoindex -browser -charset -dav -degradation -empty_gif -flv -geo -geoip -gzip_static -headers_more -image_filter -limit_req -limit_zone -map -memcached -passenger -perl -proxy -push -random_index -referer -rewrite -secure_link -split_clients -ssi -sub -upstream_ip_hash -userid -xslt" NGINX_MODULES_MAIL="-imap -pop3 -smtp" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" 725 kB

Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 731 kB

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