* [gentoo-dev] Local/per-package use flags absent from UFED
@ 2003-07-22 20:43 99% gentoo
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From: gentoo @ 2003-07-22 20:43 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev; +Cc: dhruba
Hello
Recently, I've found that certain packages are using use flags specific to that package only but absent from ufed. Take ntp for example:
$ emerge ntp -vp
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N ] net-misc/ntp-4.1.1b-r6 -parse-clocks
The '-parse-clocks' use flag was not present in ufed. I have several more examples that I cannot remember at this time.
This causes the following problems.
* The user is unable to find out the description of the use flag.
* The user may overlook flags not present in ufed resulting in incorrect configuration.
* If this problem is valid then it points towards a problem with ufed.
* Bearing the recent phenomenal explosion in use flags having these extra flags flying around only serves to inflame the problem or information overload.
- Are these per-package use flags which are distinctly different from local use flags?
- If so, is ufed in its current state unable to deal with such flags?
- Is ufed due to undergo any further development to take account of ncurses and per package use flags or is it going to remain static?
I would also like to raise certain fundamental issues about use flags in general but I'll leave that for another thread at another time.
Many thanks.
Dhruba Bandopadhyay.
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