From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JETdn-0005G9-Qc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:02:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D07E0E0BC8; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:02:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aerie.halcy0n.com (aerie.halcy0n.com [65.98.89.194]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE187E0BAE for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:02:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aerie.halcy0n.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96F527EB15 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:02:29 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at halcy0n.com Received: from aerie.halcy0n.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (halcy0n.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id n4Ytn2Ue2avC for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:02:25 -0500 (EST) Received: by aerie.halcy0n.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 719047EB16; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:02:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:02:25 -0500 From: Mark Loeser To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag documentation Message-ID: <20080114180225.GB10389@aerie.halcy0n.com> References: <20080114012453.GG24512@aerie.halcy0n.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DBIVS5p969aUjpLe" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: c04a78cb-ff50-436c-9148-ba9a72bb4573 X-Archives-Hash: fe6cf607b5272258f28ce05934e21afa --DBIVS5p969aUjpLe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ryan Hill said: > a) Keep use.desc as it is: a list of common flags and a short general=20 > description of their meaning. Sounds good. > b) Keep use.local.desc as it is: a list of per-package flags that are=20 > specific to one to a few ebuilds (i think 5 is the number though i think = 10=20 > is more appropriate, but that's not relevant to this discussion). Again,= =20 > each has a short description. Also fine. > c) Allow flags from use.desc to also exist in use.local.desc. In the cas= e=20 > that a flag for a package exists in both, the use.local.desc description= =20 > overrides the use.desc one. This allows a more specific per-package=20 > description of global flags. Still doing alright :) > d) Allow long descriptions in a package's metadata.xml, as some have begu= n=20 > to do already, for cases where more info is needed. For example I'd like= =20 > to explain exactly what the bindist flag on freetype does and what legal= =20 > implications disabling it can have. Why can't this be done in use.local.desc? --=20 Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://www.halcy0n.com --DBIVS5p969aUjpLe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHi6OxCRZPokWLroQRAnS5AJ43iybfduOaQz/b3QrTKiu/x3MnGQCeMmsF 7gMIMi3L+anoWW6fY5OuE0g= =Pp4Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DBIVS5p969aUjpLe-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list