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 1NQzV2-0006bC-0u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:38:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3FE0E078A; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 08:36:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f47.google.com (mail-pw0-f47.google.com [209.85.160.47]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7214EE078A for ; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 08:36:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj10 with SMTP id 10so1866410pwj.26 for ; Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:36:57 -0800 (PST) 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 Sender: cardoe@cardoe.com Received: by 10.142.3.37 with SMTP id 37mr14388002wfc.146.1262421417866; Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:36:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B3D2220.4040208@gentoo.org> References: <4B3D2220.4040208@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 02:36:57 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 062ef3e1d9038caa Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: use.local.desc From: Doug Goldstein To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: d3eb292f-591b-4247-9d90-217f9342afe5 X-Archives-Hash: 3408c6718c592abe45cfc80408c55e4c On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 01/01/2010 12:07 AM, Robin H. Johnson (robbat2) wrote: >> +app-accessibility/flite:alsa - use alsa for audio output. >> +app-accessibility/flite:oss - Use Open Sound System for audio output. > > Why? USE alsa and oss are global flags. > > Real question is why not? local USE flags provide more details than the very generic global description and as such are considered a good thing. That is one of the purposes I had in mind originally when I wrote GLEP 56 [1]. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0056.html -- Doug Goldstein