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 1RNu35-0002Zf-1m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:21:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DE8121C06C; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 22:21:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC12D21C046 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 22:20:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenm12 with SMTP id m12so25324yen.40 for ; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:20:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=KYOfOqZhXHRPSDqotatsjDhFlqekQ0YiAPezPOH6t4U=; b=Xulq0i/NkPyrgq3PhRk+yNkk8wC3+tt1siWwNxp1nk3tqEgPio+DC2UDwmkiVCuWis qqfn6DnNiKeFJbEBQfMtxoaYEb+Xtd+WkUXC5Me6hzTUpTgRBI1kMA4NvCqgOvNs7zVG NBli2Sxq78PPByEI0LsIVQl2La47vkJQ2vRXo= 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 10.100.186.10 with SMTP id j10mr7514275anf.83.1320790849360; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:20:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.194.15 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:20:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 11:20:49 +1300 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [Bug 387775] Should USE=git be global? From: Dan Wallis To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: d7a5b025-93ff-465f-adba-07ccc755f699 X-Archives-Hash: 0c5d86453216cf916cc6342d87475335 > --- Comment #1 from Jeroen Roovers 2011-10-20 15:54:56 UTC --- > Please drop this suggestion on the gentoo-dev mailing list. While cleaning up my .../etc/make.conf file, I noticed that there appear to be a number of packages which use USE=git to enable optional support for dev-vcs/git. Should USE=git become a global USE flag? parakeet ~ # grep -Fe ":git " /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc app-portage/layman:git - Support dev-vcs/git based overlays dev-python/anyvc:git - Add support for Git dev-util/kdevplatform:git - Enable Git version control support dev-util/metro:git - Enable support for git snapshots dev-util/monodevelop:git - Enable Git version control support dev-util/qt-creator:git - enable git plugin dev-vcs/cvs2svn:git - Support for dev-vcs/git dev-vcs/fromcvs:git - Add support for conversion to dev-vcs/git repositories dev-vcs/rabbitvcs:git - Enable plugin for dev-vcs/git kde-base/dolphin-plugins:git - Enable support for the git VCS sys-devel/gettext:git - When running `autopoint`, use git to store the internal development files; this requires git at runtime, but will be faster/smaller than raw archives www-apps/redmine:git - Enable support for dev-vcs/git xfce-extra/thunar-vcs-plugin:git - Enable dev-vcs/git support parakeet ~ # Where dev-util/metro and sys-devel/gettext appear to have another meaning for their USE=git flag.