Hello. Is it allowed (good idea) to override global USE flags in metadata.xml?
GLEP 56 in Motivation part give us such examples and media-libs/xine-lib already uses this possibility but before GLEP 56 was implemented having USE flag both in local.use.desc and use.desc was not allowed. We already discussed this issue on -dev in "USE flag documentation" thread(s) and although general opinion was that this is good idea (I have not found objections) we still have documented that this is not allowed. Cite from devmanual[1]: "All USE flags must be described in either use.desc or use.local.desc in the profiles/ directory." Personally I think that this is good idea to specialize global USE flags description in metadata.xml. In such case global USE flag description still correct, and we just adjust their meaning for specific package. What others think? P.S. After I wrote this e-mail I found bug 235708 [1] which discusses same issue but I still think -dev is better place for such discussion. [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/index.html [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235708 -- Peter.
