[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-misc/anki: anki-0.9.9.5.ebuild metadata.xml ChangeLog

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-misc/anki: anki-0.9.9.5.ebuild metadata.xml ChangeLog

[Christian Faulhammer]

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Hi,

"Heath Caldwell (hncaldwell)" <hncaldwell@gentoo.org>:
> +		<flag name="latex">
> +			Enable support for LaTeX
> +		</flag>

You only have to add flags to metadata.xml, that are not in
use.desc...and USE=latex is there with a similar description as yours.

V-Li

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-misc/anki: anki-0.9.9.5.ebuild metadata.xml ChangeLog

[Maciej Mrozowski]

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On Thursday 15 of January 2009 09:12:12 Christian Faulhammer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> "Heath Caldwell (hncaldwell)" <hncaldwell@gentoo.org>:
> > +		<flag name="latex">
> > +			Enable support for LaTeX
> > +		</flag>
>
> You only have to add flags to metadata.xml, that are not in
> use.desc...and USE=latex is there with a similar description as yours.

I would disagree here. I found considerable amount of packages in portage with 
less than specific "Add support for XML files" as USE=xml description.

While it may be by someone considered *similar* to "Enable XML support via 
libxml library", I found it more than confusing, as XML support is enabled in 
some packages anyway (as those packages just use only XML files for 
configuration), in some cases if may not be even remotely related to libxml.

That being said, I would rather suggest adding always *precise* and *non-
general* USE flags descriptions even for global USE flags (actually especially 
for them) as I usually found it pretty much necessary to look up ebuilds to 
get to know what does particular USE flag actually do, and I guess this should 
be avoided at all cost, especially when it does not cost a penny as maintainer 
actually already knows what's all about with those USE flags for particular 
package.

-- 
regards
MM

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-misc/anki: anki-0.9.9.5.ebuild metadata.xml ChangeLog

[Christoph Mende]

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On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:38:26 +0100
Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@poczta.fm> wrote:

> That being said, I would rather suggest adding always *precise* and *non-
> general* USE flags descriptions even for global USE flags (actually especially 
> for them) as I usually found it pretty much necessary to look up ebuilds to 
> get to know what does particular USE flag actually do, and I guess this should 
> be avoided at all cost, especially when it does not cost a penny as maintainer 
> actually already knows what's all about with those USE flags for particular 
> package.
> 

That'd definitely be annoying when doing "euse -i <some flag>" and
getting over 9000 hits, so let's remove the "always"

-- 
Christoph Mende
Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Lead and Release Engineering
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-misc/anki: anki-0.9.9.5.ebuild metadata.xml ChangeLog

[Peter Volkov]

В Чтв, 15/01/2009 в 09:12 +0100, Christian Faulhammer пишет:
> "Heath Caldwell (hncaldwell)" <hncaldwell@gentoo.org>:
> > +		<flag name="latex">
> > +			Enable support for LaTeX
> > +		</flag>
> 
> You only have to add flags to metadata.xml, that are not in
> use.desc...

I asked on IRC some time ago and I was told that it's good idea to
document global USE flags in metadata.xml in case description does not
amend global USE flag description but specializes it.

> and USE=latex is there with a similar description as yours.

In this case it's just redundant.

-- 
Peter.

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-misc/anki: anki-0.9.9.5.ebuild metadata.xml ChangeLog

[Heath N. Caldwell]

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On 2009-01-15 09:12, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> "Heath Caldwell (hncaldwell)" <hncaldwell@gentoo.org>:
> > +		<flag name="latex">
> > +			Enable support for LaTeX
> > +		</flag>
> 
> You only have to add flags to metadata.xml, that are not in
> use.desc...and USE=latex is there with a similar description as yours.

Fixed, thanks.

-- 
Heath Caldwell - hncaldwell@gentoo.org

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