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 1QOWmR-0002Uo-Op for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 May 2011 15:10:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9F341C037; Mon, 23 May 2011 15:10:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2859AE0345 for ; Mon, 23 May 2011 15:10:14 +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 78EF21B4014 for ; Mon, 23 May 2011 15:10:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4DDA78D3.6070805@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 11:10:11 -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-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Should "server" be a global use flag? References: <4DDA6EA9.5040408@gentoo.org> <19930.29615.437810.811730@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <19930.29615.437810.811730@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fac70d6d7e4c8d80a75f5191ff141e33 On 05/23/2011 10:48 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, 23 May 2011, Anthony G Basile wrote: >> 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". > From : > > | If the effect of the USE flag upon pkg-one is substantially > | different from the effect it has upon pkg-two, then the flag is not > | a suitable candidate for being made a global flag. In particular, > | note that if client and server USE flags are ever introduced, they > | can not be global USE flags for this reason. > > Ulrich > My point was that the "server" flag has the *same* effect on all these packages, ie to turn on their server support. But the point was made on #gentoo-dev that what is a server for one package is not the same as a server for another package. Thinking along those lines, the "server" flag has a *different* effect on each package. Reflecting on this, the stricter definition makes more sense, so I retract my point. -- 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