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

[Matthieu Sozeau <mattam@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 03:12:54PM -0400, Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.- wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Matthieu Sozeau wrote:
> 
> > 	as there are no strong objections (yet) to this proposal, i will add
> > "examples - Adds examples (code, sample documents... NOT sample 
> > configurations)" to use.desc tomorrow if no one complains.
> 
> I can see I wasn't clear enough before.

You didn't follow up on the thread you started which turned out to advocate 
(at least I interpreted it this way) for a distinct 'examples' USE flag, 
perhaps renamed, so I pushed a little :)

> I object.  The use of the "doc" use flag should cover the installation of
> the example code in question.  There is no need to add yet another global
> use flag for this.

What if examples was used like a doc subflag ? The point is that some
people may want docs but not examples (if they know the API well for
example) (and rarely examples but no docs i suspect) and it should be
supported by ebuilds, if possible in a general way. What would you say
if Karl or myself add 'examples' local USE flags for some ebuilds ?

-- Matthieu

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