From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jnwc8-00052b-0j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:03:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50476E028C; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:03:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21B7EE028C for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:03:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5A87658F1 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:03:21 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.535 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.535 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.997, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id UWhT+5GEJvd9 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:03:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BBBE64B1B for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:03:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Jnwbs-0006I7-5v for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:03:08 +0000 Received: from 82.153.195.102 ([82.153.195.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:03:08 +0000 Received: from slong by 82.153.195.102 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:03:08 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Steve Long Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: New global USE flag: keyring Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:02:29 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1208702743.15500.4.camel@marx> <9e0cf0bf0804200829g1e8bc280yd0c74af3abebd594@mail.gmail.com> <20080420153230.GA29610@trippin> <1208706284.15500.7.camel@marx> <9e0cf0bf0804200900t1498cc93s2e4feffb8acdfeab@mail.gmail.com> <20080421060502.52c9a3e9@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.153.195.102 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 825e8237-7693-4bf5-8fb5-ee24dfaba477 X-Archives-Hash: 07584676e81019ee695476e00e148b6f Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:06:07 +0200 > Tiziano M=FCller wrote: >=20 >> I'd say we should convert it to a global use flag now with a good >> description and change it to gnome-keyring later in case we really >> have a package which needs 'keyring' for something else. >=20 > Needless to say it would save quite a few users from needlessly > rebuilding a few packages. That's green thinking. :) >=20 Sorry to get technical but how difficult is it really to change USE flag names? I appreciate that users are out of sync yadda yadda, but could thi= s kind of thing not be considered out of band data similar to news? I accept that portage has to maintain compatibility but aiui the old way = of doing this was simply depending on a version of portage that had the capability. Since we're only talking about ~10 packages, is that so much = of a hardship? After all, I'm sure the other manglers don't lag behind emerge, based on = the hyperbole. Do they? --=20 gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list