From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ENE85-0000vz-Ot for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 18:36:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j95IRD1k015755; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:27:13 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j95IPQKH026982 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:25:26 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1ENE5S-0007q8-3Q for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 18:33:54 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ENE5r-0004vg-P7 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:34:19 +0100 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 19:34:17 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Improved ebuild information Message-ID: <20051005193417.24ebf076@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <1128535434.7199.6.camel@lycan.lan> References: <433EEF5B.1040102@stiefelweb.de> <20051001212202.3e7537f3@snowdrop.home> <1128535434.7199.6.camel@lycan.lan> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.8; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <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@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Signature_Wed__5_Oct_2005_19_34_17_+0100_5jt3zzA9h7Lh/IMh"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: b4c41719-78cd-4c6a-bade-1d1556bd77bc X-Archives-Hash: 600b504a62ae488f3f559c8f68395a75 --Signature_Wed__5_Oct_2005_19_34_17_+0100_5jt3zzA9h7Lh/IMh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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... --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Wed__5_Oct_2005_19_34_17_+0100_5jt3zzA9h7Lh/IMh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDRByr96zL6DUtXhERAq9tAKC7LAimTPxfbGqbjdkTSFdn9raBbQCgsZ5k lzNOcqFfGnd2rcGJb8beEUI= =tp6v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Wed__5_Oct_2005_19_34_17_+0100_5jt3zzA9h7Lh/IMh-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list