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 1KacXX-00030T-SP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:31:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D501BE07DF; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:31:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nameserver1.mcve.com (nameserver1.mcve.com [216.155.111.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3E5DE07DF for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:31:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.11.55] (shop.monetra.com [216.155.111.10]) by nameserver1.mcve.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60A2F1110012 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:31:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <48BDA2B4.1010605@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:31:48 -0400 From: Doug Goldstein User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) 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] global USE flag overrides in metadata.xml (bug 235708) References: <1220386740.6005.112.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1220386740.6005.112.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 71e21fee-9fd7-4cd6-9fd7-615f19dd1465 X-Archives-Hash: 996a6cf58de292de289266a1f0b3d764 Peter Volkov wrote: > Hello. > > Is it allowed (good idea) to override global USE flags in metadata.xml? > > > Yes. That was the whole point of this. That's why I started it because Halc0yn said we could not override global USE flags (use.desc) in local USE flag (use.local.desc). The devmanual has not been updated to reflect the acceptance of GLEP 56 by the council nor it's subsequent implementation.