From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2L59OKB032054 for <gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org>; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 05:09:24 GMT Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.183]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDFAJ-0002k7-Fk for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 05:09:23 +0000 Received: from [212.227.126.179] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1DDFAJ-0005A5-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:09:23 +0100 Received: from [82.82.136.183] (helo=sven.genone.homeip.net) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1DDFAJ-0002hR-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:09:23 +0100 Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:11:28 +0100 From: Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE Flags Message-ID: <20050321061128.6b7f0b64@sven.genone.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20050320232139.7eea3df7@eusebe> References: <422EEE5D.2040702@gmx.at> <20050309140028.67bf4c1c@sven.genone.homeip.net> <200503202201.26459.pauldv@gentoo.org> <20050320232139.7eea3df7@eusebe> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>, <mailto:gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org>, <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Signature_Mon__21_Mar_2005_06_11_28_+0100_Ju=H7rvYWJljlTJU"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:7e6c91d1b14dbccceb2f2166522fa0f6 X-Archives-Salt: 7be505aa-c2f9-418a-9c7c-c4bd343b819d X-Archives-Hash: 1f0fe364e07eb74fdadea302b3e3b42a --Signature_Mon__21_Mar_2005_06_11_28_+0100_Ju=H7rvYWJljlTJU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:21:39 +0100 Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@easyconnect.fr> wrote: > On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:01:18 +0100 > Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org> wrote: >=20 > > I'll add some nice tag to support this. >=20 > I'm sorry to insist, but is there something wrong with using > use.local.desc, as i've proposed in bug #84884? I don't understand > the rational for choosing metadata.xml. In my opinion, it makes > this detailed description less likely to be written (more > complex syntax, whereas the one of .desc file is already > well-known), and less likely to be read (lack of user tools > whereas there are plently for use.local.desc, which would need at > most small trivial changes, if any).=20 >=20 > Also, take the following scenario: >=20 > - use.local.desc has:=20 > "cat/pkgA:foo - adds support for libfoo as a replacement of \ > libbar. Do not enable it but if you really know what you do." >=20 > - then comes cat/pkgB, which also support libfoo: > "cat/pkgB:foo - adds support for libfoo, for playing .foo files" >=20 > - And more packages start supporting libfoo, thus "foo" becomes=20 > a global flag: > "foo - adds support for libfoo" > With the "metadata.xml" approach, that will require moving the > existing descriptions from use.local.desc to the various xml > files. At the contrary, with the "keep it in use.local.desc" > approach, no additional work is required...=20 >=20 >=20 > So could someone explain me that choice? Well, nothing has been finalised so far (no tool support for either solution), and thinking about it we might even use both solutions: use.local.desc for package-specific short descriptions (like at the moment) and metadata.xml for longer detailed descriptions if required, similar to <longdescription>. Opinions? Marius --=20 Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. --Signature_Mon__21_Mar_2005_06_11_28_+0100_Ju=H7rvYWJljlTJU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCPleEWzrL1pM7SNcRAvtMAJ9Rcj3yWB+tUSLhxGkd0liPAiaFjQCcCogB Uy24q5tnAT+MkOZBAYhOgvM= =MCMR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Mon__21_Mar_2005_06_11_28_+0100_Ju=H7rvYWJljlTJU-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list