From: James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing barely used global flags
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:53:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181022155306.2ddb6927@red.yakaraplc.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1540032063.1292.6.camel@gentoo.org>
On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 12:41:03 +0200
Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> 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.
>
> big-endian (2 uses):
> dev-haskell/skein: When manually selecting the endianness, use big-
> endian (default is little-endian)
> dev-java/icedtea-bin: (global)
This was added as a global only last year following a discussion here.
https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/5e1e219ce1268bd35edc161c780bc4a5
It evidently isn't widely-used yet but it could be applicable to any
binary package supporting big endian systems. More importantly, it has
been carefully unmasked and forced in various profiles and for that
reason alone, I think it should stay global. It would be tedious to do
this for each package.
--
James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-22 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-20 10:41 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing barely used global flags Michał Górny
2018-10-20 10:54 ` Kent Fredric
2018-10-22 14:53 ` James Le Cuirot [this message]
2018-10-23 8:25 ` Hanno Böck
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