Re: [gentoo-dev] Improved ebuild information

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 02:10 +0200, Daniel Stiefelmaier wrote:
> >We've discussed adding this to metadata.xml a few times in the past,
> >but every time there was opposition from a vocal minority of one who
> >claimed that USE flags should always do exactly the same thing for
> >every package.
> >  
> >
> why do minorities rule?
> Actually i agree that in general use flags should have a consistent meaning.
> But anyway, if "perl" adds support for perl, the user might want to know 
> what it is good for in this package. or "plugins" could list the plugins 
> that would be added.
> 
> What tool ever would display the use flags description, it could use 
> those from
> /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc by default, which may be overwriten in 
> metadata.xml

Well, I think that it may be easier to simply add this information to
use.local.desc, as it already defines local USE flags.  The idea would
be that use.local.desc overrides use.desc when there is a conflict.
Then portage could, via a flag, show the use descriptions for each USE
flag per package.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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