On Thursday 15 of January 2009 09:12:12 Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, > > "Heath Caldwell (hncaldwell)" <[email protected]>: > > + <flag name="latex"> > > + Enable support for LaTeX > > + </flag> > > You only have to add flags to metadata.xml, that are not in > use.desc...and USE=latex is there with a similar description as yours.
I would disagree here. I found considerable amount of packages in portage with less than specific "Add support for XML files" as USE=xml description. While it may be by someone considered *similar* to "Enable XML support via libxml library", I found it more than confusing, as XML support is enabled in some packages anyway (as those packages just use only XML files for configuration), in some cases if may not be even remotely related to libxml. That being said, I would rather suggest adding always *precise* and *non- general* USE flags descriptions even for global USE flags (actually especially for them) as I usually found it pretty much necessary to look up ebuilds to get to know what does particular USE flag actually do, and I guess this should be avoided at all cost, especially when it does not cost a penny as maintainer actually already knows what's all about with those USE flags for particular package. -- regards MM
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