From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31184 invoked by uid 1002); 16 Dec 2003 16:23:07 -0600 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-portage-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 146 invoked from network); 16 Dec 2003 16:23:06 -0600 X-WM-Posted-At: mailandnews.com; Tue, 16 Dec 03 17:23:05 -0500 From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 07:23:01 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.94 References: <200312130427.00785.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> <20031216205911.2e663ddc.genone@gentoo.org> <200312162350.04373.sn.ml@bayminer.com> In-Reply-To: <200312162350.04373.sn.ml@bayminer.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200312170723.01421.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] The purpose of USE flags X-Archives-Salt: 999c72c0-09ec-4e74-ab8b-aeb8ba7c2fa5 X-Archives-Hash: 2f6123356f75daf5c6d2dd1f3b5792b9 Hmmm, I didn't get this email. On Tuesday 16 December 2003 21:59, Marius Mauch wrote: > One problem I see with the tree represenations (and a flag being present in > multiple leafs) is an ordering probem. E.g. we have use.gui.gnome.esd (as > esd is part of gnome) and use.sound.esd. Now a user has "-use.gui.gnome > +use.sound", is esd enabled then or not? Personally, I think that flags being present in multiple leafs of a tree would be a bad thing. It adds unneeded complexity on the dev side and confusion on the user side. With a well designed tree, it shouldn't occur anyway. To take your example, use.gui.gnome.esd shouldn't exist because esd is not a gui. -- Regards, Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list