Re: [gentoo-dev] Improved ebuild information

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 20:03:54 +0200 Martin Schlemmer
<azarah@nosferatu.za.org> wrote:
| I guess I am one of this 'minority'.  The question I just want to have
| answered, is how the hell are you going to get a system up sanely (and
| without tweaking /etc/portage/package.use) if besides the 350 global
| USE flags, and the 1200 local USE flags, you now have to worry about
| global USE flags meaning different things for every package?

Not so big a deal as you might think. For example, the behaviour of the
perl, python and ruby USE flags is in general consistent, but some
people think you need to turn on those flags to enable editing perl /
python / ruby files in Vim. This isn't the case -- the flags handle
plugins written *in* the respective languages, not for. So so long as
metadata.xml (or whatever) is only used to be more specific than the
existing use.*.desc, it's not an issue...

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