From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JExwe-0002oa-TH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:24:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 789C2E08C4; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:23:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.twi-31o2.org (c-24-6-168-204.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.6.168.204]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41F7EE08C4 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:23:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.twi-31o2.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44E0E17B99DF for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:24:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at twi-31o2.org Received: from mail.twi-31o2.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gravity.twi-31o2.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id HtIQHU68inqE for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:24:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.100.36] (dsl211-165-131.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [74.211.165.131]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.twi-31o2.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B457B17B8052 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:24:02 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag documentation From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <20080114012453.GG24512@aerie.halcy0n.com> <20080114180225.GB10389@aerie.halcy0n.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-dL38UPpdTjXG/e/iq59i" Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:23:39 -0800 Message-Id: <1200450219.6149.45.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 X-Archives-Salt: b20ef5e6-d2fc-45ec-a3ec-1d0d8edfafa2 X-Archives-Hash: ac943c6da26d724afa605d4bc4a43743 --=-dL38UPpdTjXG/e/iq59i Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 17:00 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: > My expectation is that `grep "flag" use.local.desc` will give me a > list of packages using that flag (or having it in the description), > one per line. Putting paragraphs in there doesn't seem right. A single long line still fills this "requirement" for us. However, it does bring up the point. Why even have use.local.desc (or metadata.xml's tag) at all? Is there really a need for a *global* list of flags that are ebuild-specific? (I don't care or have much opinion, either way, I'm merely presenting some topic for discussion on this.) --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer --=-dL38UPpdTjXG/e/iq59i Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkeNaqsACgkQkT4lNIS36YFVLgCgiLPsmEVKZ7fcfEGQXrCAuAsr Y3AAoKFJfiwFxFDKi2bB/GKQ2nFApzXI =kNSC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-dL38UPpdTjXG/e/iq59i-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list