Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Tobias Scherbaum <dertobi123@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP 56] metadata.xml USE flag descriptions [Clarifications]
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:48:09
Message-Id: 1219096082.4068.5.camel@homer.ob.libexec.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP 56] metadata.xml USE flag descriptions [Clarifications] by Doug Goldstein
1 Doug Goldstein wrote:
2 > > What is the benefit?
3 > >
4 > > Regards,
5 > >
6 > There is none really. Allow all use flags to exist in metadata.xml. It's
7 > really more of a clarification to the GLEP if this is allowed.
8
9 Agreed, it has no benefit at all plus would lead to some kind of useless
10 duplication of information. Stating <flag name='png' /> in metadata.xml
11 for global use flags makes basically no difference to IUSE="png", except
12 that we already have the latter one.
13
14 Tobias

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