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From: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] metadata.xml USE flag descriptions
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:39:31
Message-Id: 488E1260.5020105@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] metadata.xml USE flag descriptions by Arun Raghavan
1 Arun Raghavan wrote:
2 > Doug Goldstein wrote:
3 > > Please make sure you commit any changes to use.local.desc to
4 > > metadata.xml otherwise you risk the chance of having your changes lost.
5 > > I'm currently in the process of converting use.local.desc to
6 > > metadata.xml. After a category is converted, it will be auto-generated
7 > > EXCLUSIVELY from metadata.xml. This means it will be YOU QA error if you
8 > > only commit to use.local.desc from here on out.
9 >
10 > Quick howto from IRC logs for those who want to get started:
11 >
12 > Copy the stuff to metadata.xml, fix the typos and grammatical issues,
13 > and any package or category references need to be wrapped in <pkg> or
14 > <cat>
15 >
16 > Cheers,
17 > Arun
18 Just to give an example of the above...
19
20 app-cdr/brasero:libburn - Enable libburn backend.
21
22 becomes...
23
24 <flag name='libburn'>Enable <pkg>dev-libs/libburn</pkg> backend</flag>