Re: [gentoo-dev] special small-files USE flag without effect on dependencies: [ unicode ]

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

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Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com> writes:

> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> On 2/9/24 7:04 PM, Sam James wrote:
>> 
>> Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Often, USE flags have an obvious point even without selecting or
>>> deselecting dependencies -- usually because their maintainers took care
>>> in describing it in metadata.xml.
>>>
>> 
>> To pick up on this point: yes, if one concludes the USE flag has merit
>> and the global description is either poor or has some reason to be
>> considered spurious in the case of the package, you should consider
>> documenting it to avoid this question.
>> 
>> Adding a suppression like https://github.com/pkgcore/pkgcheck/issues/478
>> proposes should really be accompanied by such an improvement anyway for
>> the benefit of users.
>
>
> I'd like to request in the event that this pkgcheck ticket is
> implemented, that including a description in metadata.xml which provides
> additional package specific information (or, programmatically, "is
> non-empty and un-equal to the global description") is made mandatory for
> the purposes of silencing this warning... :)

parona ended up messaging me and pointing out that
https://pkgcore.github.io/pkgcheck/man/pkgcheck.html#useflagwithoutdeps
already says...

> In cases where this USE flag is appropriate, you can silence this
> warning by adding a description to this USE flag in metadata.xml file
> and thus making it a local USE flag instead of global one.

which I think pretty much solves the full thing already...

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