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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Improved ebuild information
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 21:22:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051001212202.3e7537f3@snowdrop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <433EEF5B.1040102@stiefelweb.de>

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On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 22:19:39 +0200 Daniel Stiefelmaier
<mail@stiefelweb.de> wrote:
| I'd like to have a functionality that prints out what the useflags of
| a ebuild are good for. Some are obvious, others are not. Example:
| The useflag "xprint" sounds like printing support, but doesn't tell
| if you need it if you use cups or the kde-printing system or...
| whatever.

We've discussed adding this to metadata.xml a few times in the past,
but every time there was opposition from a vocal minority of one who
claimed that USE flags should always do exactly the same thing for
every package.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
Web             : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-01 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-01 20:19 [gentoo-dev] Improved ebuild information Daniel Stiefelmaier
2005-10-01 20:22 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2005-10-02  0:10   ` Daniel Stiefelmaier
2005-10-02  6:06     ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-10-05 18:03   ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-10-05 18:34     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-10-05 21:13     ` [gentoo-dev] " R Hill
2005-10-10 12:53       ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-10-10 17:36         ` Bruno
2005-10-10 19:02           ` Apreche
2005-10-10 19:23         ` R Hill
2005-10-10 19:56           ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2005-10-01 20:25 ` [gentoo-dev] " Simon Stelling
2005-10-02  0:46   ` Daniel Stiefelmaier
2005-10-02  2:35     ` Alec Warner

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