Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: New global USE flag: keyring

[Peter Weller <welp@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 18:06 +0200, Tiziano Müller wrote:
> Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> 
> > 2008/4/20 Peter Weller <welp@gentoo.org>:
> >> On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 18:32 +0300, Ali Polatel wrote:
> >> > Alon Bar-Lev yazm??:
> >> > > I suggest gnome-something as it is gnome feature.
> >> >
> >> > How about gnome-keyring? :)
> >> >
> >>
> >> Why? All the ebuilds currently using the 'keyring' use flag are using it
> >> for gnome-keyring. As long as there is a proper description of the USE
> >> flag, there should be no confusion caused.
> > 
> > Because it may be confusing.
> True.
"Proper description of the USE flag"

> > As long as it is local flag for gnome packages, the gnome is implicit.
> > If you want it to be global, gnome should be explicit.
> Only in case there are other packages which use a 'keyring' use flag which
> means something else than support for gnome-keyring.
> 
> I'd say we should convert it to a global use flag now with a good
> description and change it to gnome-keyring later in case we really have a
> package which needs 'keyring' for something else.
I agree with what dev-zero just wrote there.

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