On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:56:23 -0600,
Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Caleb Cushing wrote:
>
> > maybe it would be a lot of work. to even develop the tools. but it
> > would be nice if a global use flag could have a detailed option.
>
> this has been discussed a few times before. i think
Caleb Cushing wrote:
> maybe it would be a lot of work. to even develop the tools. but it
> would be nice if a global use flag could have a detailed option.
this has been discussed a few times before. i think there's even a bug
for it (don't remember the #).
> example.
>
> euse -i mplayer [+
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 05:23:50PM +0200, arfrever wrote:
> In connection with latest globalization of mplayer USE flag I would like to
> ask for globalizing cairo, openexr and udev USE flags. These flags are used
> by enough amount of packages.
I vote for a 'libnotify' global USE flag. It is u
maillog: 29/10/2006-05:26:52(+0200): Mart Raudsepp types
>
> The main problem in my eyes here is that with certain USE flags, the
> description doesn't really convey what the user will get.
> Many are in the form of "adds support for this optional thing" instead
> of "by using this optional depend
And that's the problem - the user doesn't know what benefit will it
bring her to use or not use a global USE flag for this particular
package.
yeah and it would be really nice to know these.
I just thought of another useful feature. a flag for emerge that
assumes --verbose but defines what the
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 17:12 -0400, Alec Warner wrote:
> Caleb Cushing wrote:
> >>
> >> cairo and openexr, good idea, AFAIK. udev has come up before but from
> >> that discussion, the flag means slightly different things in some cases.
> >> Keeping it local allows individual per-pkg descriptions, s
Caleb Cushing wrote:
cairo and openexr, good idea, AFAIK. udev has come up before but from
that discussion, the flag means slightly different things in some cases.
Keeping it local allows individual per-pkg descriptions, so where it
means
something different, the description can say so. In b
cairo and openexr, good idea, AFAIK. udev has come up before but from
that discussion, the flag means slightly different things in some cases.
Keeping it local allows individual per-pkg descriptions, so where it means
something different, the description can say so. In both meanings, udev
defau
arfrever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED],
excerpted below, on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:23:50 +0200:
> In connection with latest globalization of mplayer USE flag I would like
> to ask for globalizing cairo, openexr and udev USE flags. These flags are
> used by enough amount of packages.
>
In connection with latest globalization of mplayer USE flag I would like to ask
for globalizing cairo, openexr and udev USE flags. These flags are used by
enough amount of packages.
cairo - 11 packages
openexr - 10 packages
udev - 7 packages
Each of these USE flags is used by bigger amount of pa
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