2008/9/26 Michael Homer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Lucas C. Villa Real > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Michael Homer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Lucas C. Villa Real >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> Clarification: >>>>> Generic flags are defined in Settings/GenericFlags.conf. >>>>> Setting flags you do in Data/DistUseFlags.conf, Settings/UseFlags.conf >>>>> and USE environmental variable. >>>>> >>>>> Flags are parsed and enabled in this order: >>>>> DistUseFlags.conf, Settings/UseFlags.conf, USE environmental variable, >>>>> flags selected by generic flags >>>> As a simple suggestion, I'd rather name GenericFlags.conf >>>> "UseFlagsDatabase.conf", or something similar -- because that's where >>>> we set our "database". >>> No it isn't. At least, I don't think so... "database"? >> >> That's why it was surrounded by quotes. That's where we the >> assignments are done > Yes, that was what I thought you meant. But no, it isn't, it's a > mapping of generic flags. Most flags will not be in it, and most flags > people enable will not be in it. It's a convenience for the sake of > (mostly) qt/gtk/tk/etc and openssl/gnutls/nss, so that which of those > is used when more than one is available isn't just at the whim of the > recipe author (or worse, just fatal for some programs where they're > mutually-exclusive). Most flags will not belong to a generic, because > it just doesn't make sense outside a quite limited number of cases. > Changing the name to something misleadingly broad isn't going to be > clearer. > It may be my fault that Lucas is confused. It was me that agreed that maybe you could call it a database. To me it is; a database for mappings between generic flags and specific flags. But maybe having a more verbose name on that file, like GenericFlagMappings.conf (or similar), would be better.
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