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 1RAGDZ-0003fi-Uy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2011 07:12:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 607B821C1F1; Sun, 2 Oct 2011 07:11:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 833E421C076 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2011 07:11:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iaeo4 with SMTP id o4so5262608iae.40 for ; Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:11:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=b8z1EKUd33eS5DMrw2xnlvyXX0PNP9hLvG1MAeGaPbs=; b=qWO9cSIEcM46dsfLIM3/W/9RLCfudEJGfg+gCBw7jbOeeThGFePaAy5Nrh5V0IWtJP AbiKdmXKw+gfhexKDP8GRaa4brHx7WL099rUHiaTWp0/nmxDEusYFYJhLMohH4bfA049 JwCb5kuuocA2uLLSp6E1y0krcjJS1C2t4gQlU= Received: by 10.231.21.212 with SMTP id k20mr2040651ibb.50.1317539486070; Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:11:26 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.231.119.71 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Oct 2011 00:11:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20111001205702.0962cbe0@gentoo.org> References: <20097.28466.740320.941039@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <4E81870E.1000905@gentoo.org> <20111001205702.0962cbe0@gentoo.org> From: James Broadhead Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 08:11:06 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Candidates for global USE flags To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2fc37d2a413bdd63d88b7666a019431c On 2 October 2011 03:57, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:19:26 +0300 > Samuli Suominen wrote: > >> > =C2=A0 =C2=A017 =C2=A0 tools >> > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 9 =C2=A0 utils >> >> tools, and utils, what's the difference? perhaps pick one and unify them >> into global USE flag > > Saying what? =C2=A0"Install optional tools or utilities." =C2=A0That's pr= etty useless as > far as descriptions go. > > I'd rather they were local flags describing exactly what gets installed. Absolutely. A 'tools' or 'utils' flag is completely useless; until you try it in frustration having found that you're missing some part of the package (or having read the ebuild). In some cases, the local flags could even use the names of the binaries that they would additionally build