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Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 18:04:55 +0100
From: Tom Martin <slarti@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate
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On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 08:17:08AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo=
=2Eorg> wrote:
> If you make the flag global, can you make sure that all of the packages
> that use this flag exhibit the same behavior when using it.  If they all
> do their own thing, then I would suggest leaving it local.
>=20
> Global USE flags are not so much a case of x number of packages use it,
> but x number of package use it to mean the same thing.

I didn't realise that the flag was being used in more than one way --
how else is it being used?

Tom

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