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From: Mark Loeser <halcy0n@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flag documentation
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:13:28
Message-Id: 20071231201031.GA6461@aerie.halcy0n.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flag documentation by Alec Warner
1 Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> said:
2 > One of the GLEP's primary goals is to provide a global use flag
3 > definition and over-ride
4 > it with a local definition. How does putting all flags in use.desc
5 > and over-riding local flags in
6 > use.local.desc not accomplish this?
7
8 It does, and maybe that's what we should use instead? The reason for
9 the email is to figure out if what we have now is good enough, or if we
10 should switch to something else.
11
12 > How does the glep intend to handle USE_EXPAND?
13
14 It doesn't say anything about them right now, but since you brought it
15 up...any ideas? :)
16
17 --
18 Mark Loeser
19 email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org
20 email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com
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Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flag documentation Doug Klima <cardoe@g.o>