On 1/15/08, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 17:00 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: > > My expectation is that `grep "flag" use.local.desc` will give me a > > list of packages using that flag (or having it in the description), > > one per line. Putting paragraphs in there doesn't seem right. > > A single long line still fills this "requirement" for us. However, it > does bring up the point. Why even have use.local.desc (or > metadata.xml's <use> tag) at all? Is there really a need for a *global* > list of flags that are ebuild-specific? (I don't care or have much > opinion, either way, I'm merely presenting some topic for discussion on > this.)
The global use.* files are convenient because it means we don't need to generate or push a cache for the data (like for metadata). If it was per package or per-ebuild we would need to generate a cache to answer queries like 'what does the "foo" flag do'. > > -- > Chris Gianelloni > Release Engineering Strategic Lead > Games Developer > > -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
