On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 20:03:54 +0200 Martin Schlemmer
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| I guess I am one of this 'minority'. The question I just want to have
| answered, is how the hell are you going to get a system up sanely (and
| without tweaking /etc/portage/package.use) if besides the 350 global
| U
On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 21:22 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 22:19:39 +0200 Daniel Stiefelmaier
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | I'd like to have a functionality that prints out what the useflags of
> | a ebuild are good for. Some are obvious, others are not. Example:
> | The use
On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 02:10 +0200, Daniel Stiefelmaier wrote:
> >We've discussed adding this to metadata.xml a few times in the past,
> >but every time there was opposition from a vocal minority of one who
> >claimed that USE flags should always do exactly the same thing for
> >every package.
> >
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Ok really first off, I am not a gentoo developer, just to let you know :)
First off, everything here is basically taken out of context from
gentoo-portage-dev, so the only sane responses ( to this mail, not the
other one, which was different ) are go
In my opinion, the easiest way would be a wiki.
Indeed. But why do you need to modify all the ebuilds?
do i have to? of course it is not necessary to modify 10k ebuilds in a
week. The line could be added on the next regular update. And as said
below, it could also be generated automatical
We've discussed adding this to metadata.xml a few times in the past,
but every time there was opposition from a vocal minority of one who
claimed that USE flags should always do exactly the same thing for
every package.
why do minorities rule?
Actually i agree that in general use flags shoul
Hi,
Daniel Stiefelmaier wrote:
In my opinion, the easiest way would be a wiki.
Indeed. But why do you need to modify all the ebuilds?
An even more simple way would be to have portage tools (eix, emerge)
print an automatically generated link like
http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/Ebuild:www-client/
On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 22:19:39 +0200 Daniel Stiefelmaier
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I'd like to have a functionality that prints out what the useflags of
| a ebuild are good for. Some are obvious, others are not. Example:
| The useflag "xprint" sounds like printing support, but doesn't tell
| if yo
Hi!
I just opened this in gentoo-portage-dev, but Jason Stubbs told me my
ideas are either bad or belong to THIS list, so i try my luck again...
I'd like to have a functionality that prints out what the useflags of a
ebuild are good for. Some are obvious, others are not. Example:
The useflag
