[gentoo-dev] Re: Council meeting summary for 10 July 2008
Donnie Berkholz wrote: Hi all, Here is the summary from Thursday's council meeting. The complete log will show up at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ shortly. wrt GLEP 56: i) I don't see a specification when use.local.desc is finally going to be dropped ii) Why not switch to XML for use.desc as well? (just to be consequent) We could then use XInclude in a package's metadata.xml to include a global use.desc.xml in use.../use (The requirements could then be changed to: the USE flags description has to be written in the packages metadata.xml) -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Council meeting summary for 10 July 2008
Tiziano Müller wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: Hi all, Here is the summary from Thursday's council meeting. The complete log will show up at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ shortly. wrt GLEP 56: i) I don't see a specification when use.local.desc is finally going to be dropped ii) Why not switch to XML for use.desc as well? (just to be consequent) We could then use XInclude in a package's metadata.xml to include a global use.desc.xml in use.../use (The requirements could then be changed to: the USE flags description has to be written in the packages metadata.xml) Incremental steps are better then one huge sweeping change. It'll allow us to evaluate the needs and goals of the project as we move forward. The big concern with dropping use.desc is that multiple USE flags that do the same thing will start to pop up across the whole tree because developers won't know that a USE flag already exists for feature X. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
