From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RKiym-0005Yv-Ma for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:56:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4EE3221C078 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:56:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.twi-31o2.org (66-191-50-164.dhcp.gnvl.sc.charter.com [66.191.50.164]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9261fST022596 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 06:01:41 GMT Received: from vertigo.twi-31o2.org (vertigo.twi-31o2.org [192.168.0.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.twi-31o2.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76030248036 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 02:00:15 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Improved ebuild information From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <433F2593.1070207@stiefelweb.de> References: <433EEF5B.1040102@stiefelweb.de> <20051001212202.3e7537f3@snowdrop.home> <433F2593.1070207@stiefelweb.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-wUv+au9ileWDLCIQ6M5i" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 02:06:02 -0400 Message-Id: <1128233162.10387.1.camel@vertigo.twi-31o2.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 X-Archives-Salt: 2ba43a59-1541-494c-a8bf-331f5babb84b X-Archives-Hash: b123aecbcf304e127eeacd86c3962780 --=-wUv+au9ileWDLCIQ6M5i Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. > > =20 > > > why do minorities rule? > Actually i agree that in general use flags should have a consistent meani= ng. > But anyway, if "perl" adds support for perl, the user might want to know=20 > what it is good for in this package. or "plugins" could list the plugins=20 > that would be added. >=20 > What tool ever would display the use flags description, it could use=20 > those from > /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc by default, which may be overwriten in=20 > 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. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-wUv+au9ileWDLCIQ6M5i Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDP3jKkT4lNIS36YERAq5mAJ0XRDmsXfVBoMpY17e8tBTU65pHiwCglaTd jrUuq+qzF33NWZFWCj+jdCQ= =42pO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-wUv+au9ileWDLCIQ6M5i-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list