From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QOW6g-0004OE-L6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 May 2011 14:27:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 09C091C023; Mon, 23 May 2011 14:27:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 574551C01E for ; Mon, 23 May 2011 14:26:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.3.7] (cpe-67-242-155-38.buffalo.res.rr.com [67.242.155.38]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: blueness) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 791DE1B401E for ; Mon, 23 May 2011 14:26:51 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4DDA6EA9.5040408@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 10:26:49 -0400 From: "Anthony G. Basile" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110501 Lightning/1.0b3pre Lanikai/3.1.10 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 Development Subject: [gentoo-dev] Should "server" be a global use flag? X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4728962c3056ed238af0be971724f054 Hi all, I was looking at use.desc/use.local.desc to see if the "server" flag is global or not. I was surprised to see that it is not. There are 26 packages that use a local "server" flag and they all say something to the effect "Enable ${PN} server support". Should we not promote this to global with a description server - Enable the packages server component If yes, what's the procedure? We'd have to have a lot of metadata.xml's change. I'm not sure what happens if you simultaneously have a local and global USE flag by the same name (although I'm going to test in a minute on an overlay :) -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail : blueness@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 8040 5A4D 8709 21B1 1A88 33CE 979C AF40 D045 5535 GnuPG ID : D0455535