Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flags (network, 3dnowext, static-libs, mtp)

[Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>]

Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> On K, 2009-06-03 at 02:13 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote:
>> USE network is used by 9 ebuilds, and one is using USE networking which
>> can be converted, that'd be 10.

USE network "Enable networking support"

>>
>>
>> USE 3dnowext is basic optimization, 3 ebuilds, but it should be with mmx
>> and others.

USE 3dnowext "Adds support for 3dnowext multimedia processor instructions"

(desc. almost copy from 3dnow desc)

>>
>> USE static-libs to enable or disable static libs (archives), used by 6
>> ebuilds, soon more.

USE static-libs "Build static libraries"

>>
>> USE mtp is used by 6 ebuilds, enables Media Transfer Protocol support.

USE mtp "Enable support for Media Transfer Protocol"

>>
>> Any objections?
> 
> Could you share it with everyone what the proposed global descriptions
> of these USE flags would be, and what the individual local USE flag
> descriptions currently are? So that everyone won't need to look up by
> themselves or guess the global description.
> 


Thanks Samuli