Re: [gentoo-dev] global USE flag overrides in metadata.xml (bug 235708)
On 00:19 Wed 03 Sep , Peter Volkov wrote: 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? Yes, an override is OK iff it remains consistent with the global description. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpQ1qSVxXJys.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] global USE flag overrides in metadata.xml (bug 235708)
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.
Re: [gentoo-dev] global USE flag overrides in metadata.xml (bug 235708)
Peter Volkov wrote: Hello. Is it allowed (good idea) to override global USE flags in metadata.xml? Yes. That was the whole point of this. That's why I started it because Halc0yn said we could not override global USE flags (use.desc) in local USE flag (use.local.desc). The devmanual has not been updated to reflect the acceptance of GLEP 56 by the council nor it's subsequent implementation.
