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 1NQzub-0001s9-9q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:04:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34D9BE0775; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 09:04:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFE60E0775 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 09:04:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.0/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o0294Dtq012217 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 10:04:14 +0100 Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o0294DYj015234; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 10:04:13 +0100 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o0294Dvs015231; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 10:04:13 +0100 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19263.3085.643201.916178@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 10:04:13 +0100 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: use.local.desc In-Reply-To: References: <4B3D2220.4040208@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12 under 23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller X-Archives-Salt: a87cddad-1789-47f5-aa7c-00bffad8e428 X-Archives-Hash: 380ff2d515a5946b6d26e28ec0a32328 >>>>> On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Doug Goldstein wrote: >>> +app-accessibility/flite:alsa - use alsa for audio output. >>> +app-accessibility/flite:oss - Use Open Sound System for audio output. >> >> Why? USE alsa and oss are global flags. > Real question is why not? local USE flags provide more details than > the very generic global description and as such are considered a > good thing. They are a good thing if they provide additional information. But I don't see that in the two descriptions above. Ulrich