>>>>> On Mon, 23 May 2011, Anthony G Basile wrote:
> I was looking at use.desc/use.local.desc to see if the "server" flag is
> global or not. I was surprised to see that it is not. There are 26
> packages that use a local "server" flag and they all say something to
> the effect "Enable ${PN} server support".
>From <http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/>:
| If the effect of the USE flag upon pkg-one is substantially
| different from the effect it has upon pkg-two, then the flag is not
| a suitable candidate for being made a global flag. In particular,
| note that if client and server USE flags are ever introduced, they
| can not be global USE flags for this reason.
Ulrich
