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 1K4ljq-0006eC-Nz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:52:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B552E0475; Fri, 6 Jun 2008 23:52:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E10D5E0475 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2008 23:52:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z27so804063ugc.49 for ; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:52:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=zHzQhg7HV2worPlML3SB92X39xAo2Mlx++Y/I0SvhFk=; b=GpwP4SSWpVTVHLJDrTz7Czomv15vfAQA/gURVAVdoFGOGkCpp43Ho3erf0LylGbYgK xH03AivGVYsY1Ewy+842cUaB/CvsCMaP86MF26EbP/NRw47qiVRsaUBPRNoYYkKAdhvJ zeAmLj53mbI5YPpAZbGAis/ZRmxSdOxDlwCcM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=k1N1Q9KBRpxkEJ6iTYsHk2+qvhFVA5o7NvnogteQZiars0ghf6aPREZQFAnijl7a3T Eico/yw2E3Ddhe4mklTkgK8MhVhELXB/levrNceQmw86oOr/h+Mdldr/Io79o7/+5j06 XFwWVtGfM9KqeEBp/mDrJjqtix1C0IbJcg7VA= Received: by 10.66.236.13 with SMTP id j13mr33346ugh.7.1212796372264; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:52:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowcone ( [213.121.151.206]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p32sm12458ugc.34.2008.06.06.16.52.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:52:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 00:52:47 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata Message-ID: <20080607005247.5d2182bc@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <484841A0.8060803@gentoo.org> References: <484841A0.8060803@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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; boundary="Sig_/y0glZqVn=Kqy7+lCWkVt8VX"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 65df63d1-8357-4b8c-9111-dc20d38d9a36 X-Archives-Hash: e0ac9c6497bbde0bd0dce4039300ced6 --Sig_/y0glZqVn=Kqy7+lCWkVt8VX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:42:24 -0400 Doug Goldstein wrote: > Here's a GLEP for the addition of USE flag descriptions to package=20 > metadata. It does not address any future ideas that others may have > had or suggested. It merely gives developers the necessary "tools" to=20 > document their USE flag usage it better detail on a per package basis. There should also be a way of referring to a use flag owned by either this or another package. For example: Enables support for fooing. Ignored unless plugin support is enabled for this package and bindings is enabled for app-misc/foo. But that's rather ugly... There's probably a nicer way of marking it up using XML. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/y0glZqVn=Kqy7+lCWkVt8VX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhJzdEACgkQ96zL6DUtXhE0ZQCgzoBaRZCwaFCKzWK/pwyBE67s eqcAoIw5oxTNFBoPZ4QSh9HCFA15yS8D =f7e3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/y0glZqVn=Kqy7+lCWkVt8VX-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list