Re: [gentoo-dev] Improved ebuild information

[Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>]

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On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 21:22 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 22:19:39 +0200 Daniel Stiefelmaier
> <mail@stiefelweb.de> wrote:
> | I'd like to have a functionality that prints out what the useflags of
> | a ebuild are good for. Some are obvious, others are not. Example:
> | The useflag "xprint" sounds like printing support, but doesn't tell
> | if you need it if you use cups or the kde-printing system or...
> | whatever.
> 
> 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.
> 

I guess I am one of this 'minority'.  The question I just want to have
answered, is how the hell are you going to get a system up sanely (and
without tweaking /etc/portage/package.use) if besides the 350 global USE
flags, and the 1200 local USE flags, you now have to worry about global
USE flags meaning different things for every package?

As for the 'xprint' USE flags ... I guess the description is
deceptive .. its support for X11's printing system (or should be).
'cups' is for cups support, etc.


-- 
Martin Schlemmer


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