From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2256 invoked by uid 1002); 22 Jul 2003 20:43:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 18671 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2003 20:43:28 -0000 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 21:43:27 +0100 From: "gentoo@codewordt.co.uk" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Cc: dhruba@codewordt.co.uk Message-ID: <20030722204327.GA13816@feathers.codewordt.co.uk> Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org, dhruba@codewordt.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: [gentoo-dev] Local/per-package use flags absent from UFED X-Archives-Salt: 3139defe-7617-434b-ad26-6e053ec19777 X-Archives-Hash: 0158239db5bd2b60a501c10354bd3664 Hello Recently, I've found that certain packages are using use flags specific to that package only but absent from ufed. Take ntp for example: $ emerge ntp -vp Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] net-misc/ntp-4.1.1b-r6 -parse-clocks The '-parse-clocks' use flag was not present in ufed. I have several more examples that I cannot remember at this time. This causes the following problems. * The user is unable to find out the description of the use flag. * The user may overlook flags not present in ufed resulting in incorrect configuration. * If this problem is valid then it points towards a problem with ufed. * Bearing the recent phenomenal explosion in use flags having these extra flags flying around only serves to inflame the problem or information overload. - Are these per-package use flags which are distinctly different from local use flags? - If so, is ufed in its current state unable to deal with such flags? - Is ufed due to undergo any further development to take account of ncurses and per package use flags or is it going to remain static? I would also like to raise certain fundamental issues about use flags in general but I'll leave that for another thread at another time. Many thanks. Dhruba Bandopadhyay. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list