Re: [gentoo-dev] [FRC] News item: Changing USE flags for >=app-backup/bacula

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 5:45 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 08/15/2017 11:33 AM, tomjbe@gentoo.org wrote:
>> Quoting Kristian Fiskerstrand (2017-08-15 10:37:39)
>>> On 08/15/2017 12:29 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>>> On pon, 2017-08-14 at 21:58 +0200, Thomas Beierlein wrote:
>>>>>> * 'bacula-clientonly' becomes 'clientonly'
>>>>> This is still negative logic in disguise. clientonly = noserver.
>>>
>>> Can the "minimum"-use flag be utilized here?
>>>
>> Sounds reasonable and is worth thinking about. At least we could define the
>> meaning of "minimum" here in metadata.xml.
>>
>> But, looking through portage there seems to be no "minimum" use flag anymore.
>> Seems it got dropped for some reasons.
>>
>
> typo; "minimal"...

The meaning of the minimal flag varies considerably throughout the
tree.  It is common only because its meaning morphs from package to
package.

For example, could you say that a client-only install that still
installs the X11 components is "minimal?"

-- 
Rich