From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GBxQd-0004gO-He for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:37:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7CHZiE2023469; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:35:44 GMT Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7CHZhZN022600 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:35:44 GMT Received: from wstn.prhnet (prh.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.251.123]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8D562740C2; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:35:40 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: recommended USE flags Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:35:43 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <44DC7816.3050203@akyasociados.com.ar> <200608121113.01942.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608121835.43684.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 56f6af31-14de-477a-8564-b4d36774e752 X-Archives-Hash: a5b70391008d0dc5d24e2a606d9c3295 On Saturday 12 August 2006 13:39, Duncan wrote: > The trouble, IMO, is in global vs. local flags. Yes, quite so. > "Support for X", fine, and as varied as that support might be, that's > about as detailed as one can get in use.desc and stay accurate for all > packages. I disagree. It's easy enough for use.desc to say "This will pull in the whole X-Window System" or "Enables programs to handle WMF files". Or even just to include a single-letter G or L prefix to each description as a first step. -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list