Changes to USE_GNOME to USES=gnome

[Ultima]

Why was the change made to add additional requirements for
using USE_GNOME? I'm not seeing what value this provides.
Is this to make the use of USES followed by USE_* more
standardized?

Best regards,
Richard Gallamore

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 4:26 PM Mathieu Arnold <mat at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 03:44:45PM -0700, Ultima wrote:
> > Hello ports,
> >
> > USE_GNOME has been deprecated in favor of USES=gnome.
> > My question is that when removing USE_GNOME, USES=gnome
> > takes no arguments, so how do you select which components to
> > use when using USES=gnome, is USE_GNOME still used for this
> > part?
>
> What is deprecated is using USE_GNOME without USES=gnome.  Of course you
> still need USE_GNOME to bring in the components that are required.
>
> --
> Mathieu Arnold
>