From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QOY90-0004Ss-5H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 May 2011 16:38:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8596C1C0B0; Mon, 23 May 2011 16:37:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C72D1C0B3 for ; Mon, 23 May 2011 16:37:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pomiocik.lan (77-255-24-193.adsl.inetia.pl [77.255.24.193]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mgorny) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 410D91B402A; Mon, 23 May 2011 16:37:15 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 18:37:17 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBHw7Nybnk=?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: ulm@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Should "server" be a global use flag? Message-ID: <20110523183717.2475d284@pomiocik.lan> In-Reply-To: <19930.29615.437810.811730@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <4DDA6EA9.5040408@gentoo.org> <19930.29615.437810.811730@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.24.3; 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; micalg=PGP-SHA256; boundary="Sig_/6wmU0pzjw.rm9848UgSIWiy"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 17cc201e6f94b5859b6eb320347488d6 --Sig_/6wmU0pzjw.rm9848UgSIWiy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 23 May 2011 16:48:15 +0200 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 23 May 2011, Anthony G Basile wrote: >=20 > > I was looking at use.desc/use.local.desc to see if the "server" > > flag is global or not. I was surprised to see that it is not. > > There are 26 packages that use a local "server" flag and they all > > say something to the effect "Enable ${PN} server support". >=20 > From : >=20 > | If the effect of the USE flag upon pkg-one is substantially > | different from the effect it has upon pkg-two, then the flag is not > | a suitable candidate for being made a global flag. In particular, > | note that if client and server USE flags are ever introduced, they > | can not be global USE flags for this reason. With that definition, USE=3Dcrypt should definitely not be global. --=20 Best regards, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny --Sig_/6wmU0pzjw.rm9848UgSIWiy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAQEIAAYFAk3ajUEACgkQfXuS5UK5QB1JlwP+PEzcB51lginSZ17ckg9AjPij 1wH59hqhL7XeaVJr+yxGW/YOBzj/bWH7FkPKnfv4UPUcaKw9niFwsbuXg4EKv+tB 5ZH82tIEwINhbQ1pOZMbRJ/mSLbDG4jmP3jfANu0UEVlrDR4hG6r95wRA5Ws61cc /z8HnEIiija8W7cK6oE= =nQEo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/6wmU0pzjw.rm9848UgSIWiy--