Bruno Roggeri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:21:23 +0100:
> I filed bug 165561 [1] to ask for the musicbrainz useflag to be made > global, and in reply I was asked to have it discussed here, so here it > goes. According to use.local.desc, the useflag is used in 4 different > ebuilds for the same purpose : > app-cdr/k3b, media-sound/amarok, media-sound/prokyon3 and > media-sound/rhythmbox. As a user and reader of this group, the rule of thumb has always seemed to be five packages minimum for consideration as a global USE flag. The examples you gave all seemed to be four packages per flag, which would explain why they haven't been made global yet. However, I've not seen any specific reason given that it /has/ to be specifically /5/ packages. Personally as a user, I don't see anything wrong with going global at 4, except that it's a change and would therefore need discussed and some sort of semblance of agreement arrived at. (Personally, I'd put it at 3, but can see why some might object to that... at 3, it's arguably too easy for one of the three packages to be tree-cleaned, ultimately leaving a rather cluttered use.global.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
