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From: Dan Wallis <mrdanwallis@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [Bug 387775] Should USE=git be global?
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:21:43
Message-Id: CAPeNp_==J5Qj1GrecDfoCD+hn=mx3Fv-q+Ud+ZHF26YNA+-ZfQ@mail.gmail.com
1 > --- Comment #1 from Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> 2011-10-20 15:54:56 UTC ---
2 > Please drop this suggestion on the gentoo-dev mailing list.
3
4 While cleaning up my .../etc/make.conf file, I noticed that there
5 appear to be a number of packages which use USE=git to enable optional
6 support for dev-vcs/git. Should USE=git become a global USE flag?
7
8 parakeet ~ # grep -Fe ":git " /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc
9 app-portage/layman:git - Support dev-vcs/git based overlays
10 dev-python/anyvc:git - Add support for Git
11 dev-util/kdevplatform:git - Enable Git version control support
12 dev-util/metro:git - Enable support for git snapshots
13 dev-util/monodevelop:git - Enable Git version control support
14 dev-util/qt-creator:git - enable git plugin
15 dev-vcs/cvs2svn:git - Support for dev-vcs/git
16 dev-vcs/fromcvs:git - Add support for conversion to dev-vcs/git repositories
17 dev-vcs/rabbitvcs:git - Enable plugin for dev-vcs/git
18 kde-base/dolphin-plugins:git - Enable support for the git VCS
19 sys-devel/gettext:git - When running `autopoint`, use git to store the internal
20 development files; this requires git at runtime, but will be faster/smaller
21 than raw archives
22 www-apps/redmine:git - Enable support for dev-vcs/git
23 xfce-extra/thunar-vcs-plugin:git - Enable dev-vcs/git support
24 parakeet ~ #
25
26 Where dev-util/metro and sys-devel/gettext appear to have another
27 meaning for their USE=git flag.