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 22C2F138334 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2018 14:54:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB0A0E08D6; Mon, 22 Oct 2018 14:54:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (dev.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (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 72F51E08C4 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2018 14:54:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from red.yakaraplc.local (host213-123-185-55.in-addr.btopenworld.com [213.123.185.55]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: chewi) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 214BB335CFE for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2018 14:53:57 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:53:51 +0100 From: James Le Cuirot To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing barely used global flags Message-ID: <20181022155306.2ddb6927@red.yakaraplc.local> In-Reply-To: <1540032063.1292.6.camel@gentoo.org> References: <1540032063.1292.6.camel@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.16.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-redhat-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: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 64acd07e-eab0-416d-a10b-aaf3f35bab8b X-Archives-Hash: 9baf86dca403b93b78c64f3ade36ca13 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. >=20 > 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/5e1e219ce1268bd35edc161c780b= c4a5 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. --=20 James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer