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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:38:13
Message-Id: 20080605223336.8e9826d6.genone@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata by Doug Goldstein
1 On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:42:24 -0400
2 Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > All,
5 >
6 > Here's a GLEP for the addition of USE flag descriptions to package
7 > metadata. It does not address any future ideas that others may have
8 > had or suggested. It merely gives developers the necessary "tools" to
9 > document their USE flag usage it better detail on a per package basis.
10 >
11 > An clearly motivation explanation that I didn't add, which I'm going
12 > to add once I send this is the fact that as per the QA Project,
13 > use.local.desc can not contain a USE flag that already appears
14 > globally in use.desc. This would allow a description for that USE
15 > flag to be contained in the metadata.
16 >
17 > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0056.html
18 >
19 > I encourage any and all _technical_ feedback.
20
21 Doesn't include any statement about compability with existing tools or
22 how it's related to use.local.desc (replacement, extension, ...)
23
24 Marius
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o>