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 1MC97p-0001pz-BH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:20:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AFCB1E02B2; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:20:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-out.neti.ee (smtp-out.neti.ee [194.126.126.44]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81EB0E02B2 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:20:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by MXR-4.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFEA64B8E3 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:20:38 +0300 (EEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at Relay4.estpak.ee Received: from smtp-out.neti.ee ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (MXR-4.estpak.ee [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id m3MDsNYmBd+h for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:20:37 +0300 (EEST) Received: from Relayhost2.neti.ee (Relayhost2 [88.196.174.142]) by MXR-4.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A1AE25D723 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:20:37 +0300 (EEST) X-SMTP-Auth-NETI-Businesmail: no Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flags (network, 3dnowext, static-libs, mtp) From: Mart Raudsepp To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4A26BAB5.8010802@gentoo.org> References: <4A25B1FE.9070603@gentoo.org> <1244019896.3048.1.camel@localhost> <4A26BAB5.8010802@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:22:01 +0300 Message-Id: <1244107321.9683.2.camel@localhost> 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 2.22.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3721292a-7061-4d9e-819a-00c1c6e69520 X-Archives-Hash: 04fa4ed7183ea14aae1ab5ac784877f6 On K, 2009-06-03 at 21:02 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > Mart Raudsepp wrote: > > On K, 2009-06-03 at 02:13 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > >> USE network is used by 9 ebuilds, and one is using USE networking which > >> can be converted, that'd be 10. > > USE network "Enable networking support" > > >> > >> > >> USE 3dnowext is basic optimization, 3 ebuilds, but it should be with mmx > >> and others. > > USE 3dnowext "Adds support for 3dnowext multimedia processor instructions" > > (desc. almost copy from 3dnow desc) Maybe it could say in parenthesis what kind of processors have it "(foo and later vendor bar CPUs)" or something if it can be classified like that. I think it's still pretty AMD specific and introduced with a certain family. > >> > >> USE static-libs to enable or disable static libs (archives), used by 6 > >> ebuilds, soon more. > > USE static-libs "Build static libraries" I think this should be clear on that dynamic libraries are still built and installed "Build static libraries in addition to shared libraries" > >> > >> USE mtp is used by 6 ebuilds, enables Media Transfer Protocol support. > > USE mtp "Enable support for Media Transfer Protocol" > > >> > >> Any objections? > > > > Could you share it with everyone what the proposed global descriptions > > of these USE flags would be, > and what the individual local USE flag > > descriptions currently are? You seem to have ignored this part. I guess I'm just lazy to go look up what packages actually have those as a local USE flags and go viewing metadata.xml of each of those. > So that everyone won't need to look up by > > themselves or guess the global description. > > > > > Thanks Samuli >