Mark Loeser wrote:
Here is a newer revision of the GLEP. I still have multiple methods of
solving this problem (mostly because I want and *need* input from people
as to what they would prefer). Please tell me what you would want to
use so I can come up with a more precise specification. What exactly do
we need this system to do that we can't do now? Is overriding the USE
flag with use.local.desc sufficient and we just need to document the
current solution properly?
Please...let me know how you feel about this.
http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/gleps/glep-0054.html
Thanks,
What do people think of this?
a) Keep use.desc as it is: a list of common flags and a short general
description of their meaning.
b) Keep use.local.desc as it is: a list of per-package flags that are specific
to one to a few ebuilds (i think 5 is the number though i think 10 is more
appropriate, but that's not relevant to this discussion). Again, each has a
short description.
c) Allow flags from use.desc to also exist in use.local.desc. In the case that
a flag for a package exists in both, the use.local.desc description overrides
the use.desc one. This allows a more specific per-package description of global
flags.
d) Allow long descriptions in a package's metadata.xml, as some have begun to do
already, for cases where more info is needed. For example I'd like to explain
exactly what the bindist flag on freetype does and what legal implications
disabling it can have.
The reason I suggest we do it this way is it's very close to what we're already
doing now. The only thing we'd need to do is decide it's okay to do (c) and
adapt our various utils to use the use.local.desc description when both exist.
I actually planned on proposing something like this about a year ago but never
got around to it. But at the time I did some poking and found that several of
our utils already did the right thing while the others needed minor adjustments
(I think I had a one-line patch for equery). We also needn't worry about
breaking 3rd party tools. The worst that would happen is they'd display the
use.desc description, which is what they do now.
On the other hand, if there are any far-reaching changes we need made to the USE
flag system - any features we wish we had or misfeatures we wish we didn't - now
would be a good time to address them.
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