From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K4lb7-0005mx-3O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:43:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D702BE033C; Fri, 6 Jun 2008 23:43:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from slimak.dkm.cz (smtp.dkm.cz [62.24.64.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 716B7E033C for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2008 23:43:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 61409 invoked by uid 0); 6 Jun 2008 23:43:32 -0000 Received: from rb5cu63.net.upc.cz (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (89.176.226.63) by smtp.dkm.cz with SMTP; 6 Jun 2008 23:43:32 -0000 Message-ID: <4849CBA3.702@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:43:31 +0200 From: Vlastimil Babka User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080503) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata References: <484841A0.8060803@gentoo.org> <20080605223336.8e9826d6.genone@gentoo.org> <4848540C.8030105@gentoo.org> <20080605235320.e188facc.genone@gentoo.org> <48486B60.4040700@gentoo.org> <484940DA.6000809@gentoo.org> <20080606171109.8e636247.genone@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20080606171109.8e636247.genone@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=4E61DE84; url=subkeys.pgp.net Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigD9570AEBC4D983FFB254400F" X-Archives-Salt: e922cd6e-d92b-4496-b58e-58c50f1ad5bd X-Archives-Hash: bf9eac4e0e4d32f47dbc7259ea2c6afe This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigD9570AEBC4D983FFB254400F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Marius Mauch wrote: > It's not about "forcing" anyone to do something but giving people enoug= h > information on how to implement it _if they choose to do so_. With the > current GLEP they'd have to make arbitrary decisions if e.g. a flag is > defined in both use.local.desc and metadata.xml, or some people might > think that it replaces use.local.desc completely. > Really, all I'm looking for is something like >=20 > "This proposal does not intend to replace the existing use.local.desc > format. If a flag is defined for a package in both use.local.desc and > metadata.xml the latter should be preferred by tools" ++ I suppose you want people to read the package-specific information=20 and not e.g. fill bug reports caused by wrong assumptions about the=20 flag's meaning. --=20 Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java --------------enigD9570AEBC4D983FFB254400F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhJy6QACgkQtbrAj05h3oRIVwCdGitkp+y2+cL1VDdT4C2Q9iFI MAsAnAmI9RE4CdDeGpH62BJv6BrNklLe =gfPB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigD9570AEBC4D983FFB254400F-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list