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From: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
To: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Useless USE descriptions...
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 20:07:48
Message-Id: 1076097757.21314.3.camel@simple
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Useless USE descriptions... by Paul de Vrieze
1 On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 14:14, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
2 > On Friday 06 February 2004 18:32, Stroller wrote:
3 > > I've been running Gentoo on my server for about a year now, but it's
4 > > only this week I've been able to install it on a desktop machine. So
5 > > today I'm doing a load of emerging of all those essential packages that
6 > > one has on every system one owns, and I'm tweaking more USE flags than
7 > > usual.
8 > >
9 >
10 > One other thing to this respect. What do you (multiple) think about allowing
11 > the description of the useflags in the metadata.xml file? (or in the ebuild
12 > itself) That would allow specification of what the consequenses are for
13 > choosing that flag for this ebuild.
14 >
15
16 It would be nice if metadata (GLEP 5) was actually accepted first.
17 http://www/proj/en/glep/index.xml
18
19
20 > Paul
21 --
22 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
23 Gentoo Linux Developer

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