On Mon, 23 May 2011 16:48:15 +0200 Ulrich Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>> 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.
With that definition, USE=crypt should definitely not be global.
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
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