Re: [gentoo-dev] Add more local USE flags

2010-03-19 Thread Zac Medico
On 03/19/2010 06:31 AM, Thomas Kahle wrote: > On 03/19/2010 02:06 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Thursday 18 March 2010 09:17:43 Thomas Kahle wrote: use.local.desc is automatically generated from metadata.xml files, so it's the same thing >>> >>> And this will soon be properly documented

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add more local USE flags

2010-03-19 Thread Thomas Kahle
On 03/19/2010 02:06 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 18 March 2010 09:17:43 Thomas Kahle wrote: >>> use.local.desc is automatically generated from metadata.xml files, so >>> it's the same thing >> >> And this will soon be properly documented: >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309963

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add more local USE flags

2010-03-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 18 March 2010 09:17:43 Thomas Kahle wrote: > > use.local.desc is automatically generated from metadata.xml files, so > > it's the same thing > > And this will soon be properly documented: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309963 funny, it's in my `man portage` and has been for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add more local USE flags

2010-03-18 Thread Thomas Kahle
> use.local.desc is automatically generated from metadata.xml files, so > it's the same thing And this will soon be properly documented: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309963 -- Thomas Kahle The fundamental theorem of algebra is open source. Like any other mathematical theorem it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add more local USE flags

2010-03-18 Thread Dmitry Bashkatov
2010/3/18 Samuli Suominen : > On 03/18/2010 03:07 PM, Dmitry Bashkatov wrote: >>> This is already supported by metadata.xml local use flags, you can add >>> extended information as local use flag in addition to global use flag. >>> >>> So I take this as a friendly reminder that maintainers should s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add more local USE flags

2010-03-18 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 03/18/2010 03:07 PM, Dmitry Bashkatov wrote: >> This is already supported by metadata.xml local use flags, you can add >> extended information as local use flag in addition to global use flag. >> >> So I take this as a friendly reminder that maintainers should start >> using the feature. >> >> -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add more local USE flags

2010-03-18 Thread Dmitry Bashkatov
> This is already supported by metadata.xml local use flags, you can add > extended information as local use flag in addition to global use flag. > > So I take this as a friendly reminder that maintainers should start > using the feature. > > -Samuli It's cool! I did not know about this feature. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add more local USE flags

2010-03-18 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 03/18/2010 02:39 PM, Dmitry Bashkatov wrote: > Hello, gentoo devs! I have a little story about USE flags. > Almost every package in gentoo has USE flags. Many of them have clear > meaning. For example: builds package documentation, or > build GUI frontend. Meaning of this flags is one for all

[gentoo-dev] Add more local USE flags

2010-03-18 Thread Dmitry Bashkatov
Hello, gentoo devs! I have a little story about USE flags. Almost every package in gentoo has USE flags. Many of them have clear meaning. For example: builds package documentation, or build GUI frontend. Meaning of this flags is one for all packages in portage. And this is described in use.desc