From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27619 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2004 19:52:25 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 25 Jul 2004 19:52:25 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bop2b-0000rv-Mf for arch-gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:52:17 +0000 Received: (qmail 7318 invoked by uid 89); 25 Jul 2004 19:52:12 +0000 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@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 6184 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2004 19:52:12 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Joel Konkle-Parker Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 15:52:05 -0400 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-13-194-159.hr.hr.cox.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040702) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Sender: news Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] Extra USE field X-Archives-Salt: 685360e4-1a39-4528-8e6a-b8f0aa24a40e X-Archives-Hash: 921bfa7e073c838d22c3853e3efa980e Would it be plausible to include an extra field in ebuilds that describes what effect a particular USE flag has on the package? Take, for example, "xml" and "xml2" in the xfree ebuild. Ok, the description says that it adds XML support. But why are there two of them? Why is it optional? What benefit does it have? etc. I can see something like: # etcat -u gnucash [ Colour Code : set unset ] [ Legend : (U) Col 1 - Current USE flags ] [ : (I) Col 2 - Installed With USE flags ] U I [ Found these USE variables in : app-office/gnucash-1.8.9 ] [snip] - - postgres : Adds support for the postgresql database Effect: Enables optional SQL backend for multiple simultaneous users; not currently maintained and does not support all features [snip] The postgres description by itself tells me nothing about why gnucash would need or want it, or what benefit it would have. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [jjk3@msstate.edu] -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list