On Saturday 07 February 2004 11:51, foser wrote: > On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 20:14, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > One other thing to this respect. What do you (multiple) think about > > allowing the description of the useflags in the metadata.xml file? (or in > > the ebuild itself) That would allow specification of what the > > consequenses are for choosing that flag for this ebuild. > > A USE flag should have the same meaning for every pack. In that sense > the basic description should suffice anywhere, any local information > should only extend the common description. Defining descriptions in > every ebuild would mostly be a duplication effort and be a source of > confusion.
I know, but reality is that it doesn't. Many useflags have sideeffects. Like with subversion the berkdb useflag has as a result that the server part will be build. With apache it will allow authentication against a berkdb repository. Let alone that without the berkdb flag the python useflag will not have any effect in subversion because it will not work. It would be nice to be able to tell these things to users. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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