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Document recommendation for "marker" features in rules based toolchain
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Bazel has quite a few "marker" type features where their presence in the toolchain is used as a signal that it supports some configuration. Here are a few examples:
https://github.com/bazelbuild/apple_support/blob/af8d93a33586c80bf2d245922ce31fcd109fe645/crosstool/cc_toolchain_config.bzl#L2666-L2678
In this case with the rules based toolchain I've found I can generally do:
```bzl
cc_feature(
name = "archive_param_file",
feature_name = "archive_param_file",
)
```
and then shoving those in `enabled_features` or `known_features`. This works fine but I wonder if it's worth trying to reduce the overhead of this for these types of features? Especially since the potential names are technically special, and we likely don't want to encourage folks to copy paste them everywhere. Maybe we should add all of these definitions to this repo, and then allow users to pull them in still?
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