I am not sure this is a good idea.

Great, thank you for this work.

Great, thank you for this work.

Whatever is in the review description will do just fine for the CHANGES entry.

Whatever is in the review description will do just fine for the CHANGES entry.

Oh, please add a entry to the CHANGES file too.

Oh, please add a entry to the CHANGES file too.

In D48201#1100173, @bofh wrote:

In D48201#1099478, @mat wrote:

It would be nice to really make use of the USES framework by using arguments, I think the JAVA_VERSION, JAVA_BUILD, JAVA_EXTRACT, JAVA_RUN and probably the USE_ANT variable should be turned into USES=java arguments, like USES=java:18+,build.

Except version everything has been converted to respective arguments.

Approved as long as it's been tested with a "today" ports tree. ("today" being regarding to the day it will being pushed.)

It would be nice to really make use of the USES framework by using arguments, I think the JAVA_VERSION, JAVA_BUILD, JAVA_EXTRACT, JAVA_RUN and probably the USE_ANT variable should be turned into USES=java arguments, like USES=java:18+,build.

This looks promising.
Could you update the diff with either using arcanist or git diff -U9999 so we get context ?

Yes, please, go ahead.

still looks good :-)