From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6C93A138334 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 10:55:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FEFAE0843; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 10:55:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DA74BE082D for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 10:55:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from katipo2.lan (unknown [203.86.205.69]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: kentnl) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 11228335C58 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 10:55:16 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 23:54:49 +1300 From: Kent Fredric To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing barely used global flags Message-ID: <20181020235449.6972dd56@katipo2.lan> In-Reply-To: <1540032063.1292.6.camel@gentoo.org> References: <1540032063.1292.6.camel@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.1 (GTK+ 2.24.32; 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_//IO.x40MlRfyfiJkWrZbeSq"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 03403bf0-8a59-4682-aa9c-3991644ea8c4 X-Archives-Hash: 5023d9f6b220fc556e569c78c9f42f25 --Sig_//IO.x40MlRfyfiJkWrZbeSq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 12:41:03 +0200 Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote: > We seem to have a lot of global flags that are used only by a few > packages. How about moving them to local flags? List of flags with > less than 5 packages using them, ordered by use count, follows. Where > applicable, local flag descriptions are listed. I'm mostly in favour. Only a handful in the '3 uses' category strike me as useful because they seem likely to be used by other packages in future. ( matroska ) It would also be curious to see this list reorganised by=20 cat/pn useflag(arity)=20 Particularly because it seems a lot of those global useflags have php as their primary offender. --Sig_//IO.x40MlRfyfiJkWrZbeSq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEgdrME8Lrmai3DXYJda6SGagVg7UFAlvLCYYACgkQda6SGagV g7WdmQ//XR7V8V52PNKlYhfxBm6Y/XOrFeRorq/SI5N1ZN474Hw1p4Ts9FcgTN7W hUtfbKvTRQw7A4xCRfzr5ldoaI99zd2IV7lNPzFrCVmAj7Qi269nh4+qC3z3DBdT JpK69QKRhWNfiZpng5CyiNVQ7CAGX9SKaIFCkiSWrrR560PWjx+71OYDi2ExplSF JGeQGOY5+5fJzoXm5npAIitnZ31qmzwQyoh5eFQo8ciQYpgjolTOqe2G1nheeLU5 U9EsCYDYQv6nmfKsLNzhBkQZoApC2ZotIMA5K+NF83SVkTXPhVWuICBl8Ez6drCd ffcsQm3CRcqJKswGx60QolAOng5gCDsZ5mgshIIC+A2m2VZufO3v5O8kZDFDzp0E pjKBFSvc/n5uUAFd57n+nH95javjHkIcIeYVSFm/kK+ND5aegW9DpeFgLxvNE35t JHgLmLHtjGTciSktFN6f14aHLTo5skHOTPtTfCVflaDK7DKV2KoiJzVn9xRL+7Uv mHgjeSzhabQnafwrzKZkbkRrGDJdQP0RXhHDxKe72LUF/rFMOWi2S3pAvvbWLu9Y ZdQTPMTqp9sZcCZUkdzN1cAdGG+DaNMvAwTyZCT+KkFJH6FR2asm1Q+71fPc9eOx xg0yoFcoKHvVdAg/Folu9ZRAHJBtW829hsYXRWmKvTE45xKKoV4= =GLfk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_//IO.x40MlRfyfiJkWrZbeSq--