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From: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata.xml USE flag descriptions
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:24:38
Message-Id: 488E0EE4.5090606@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata.xml USE flag descriptions by Marius Mauch
1 Marius Mauch wrote:
2 > On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:50:01 -0400
3 > Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >> Please make sure you commit any changes to use.local.desc to
7 >> metadata.xml otherwise you risk the chance of having your changes
8 >> lost. I'm currently in the process of converting use.local.desc to
9 >> metadata.xml. After a category is converted, it will be
10 >> auto-generated EXCLUSIVELY from metadata.xml. This means it will be
11 >> YOU QA error if you only commit to use.local.desc from here on out.
12 >>
13 >
14 > Hmm, maybe we should then disallow commits to use.local.desc on the cvs
15 > server completely ...
16 >
17 > Marius
18 >
19 >
20 We've actually been considering this. The ban will definitely go into
21 effect once all categories are fully converted and it's auto-generating.