Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: use.local.desc
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:52:46
Message-Id: 4B3F17FC.8070900@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: use.local.desc by Ulrich Mueller
1 On 01/02/2010 11:04 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 >>>>>> On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Doug Goldstein wrote:
3 >
4 >>>> +app-accessibility/flite:alsa - use alsa for audio output.
5 >>>> +app-accessibility/flite:oss - Use Open Sound System for audio output.
6 >>>
7 >>> Why? USE alsa and oss are global flags.
8 >
9 >> Real question is why not? local USE flags provide more details than
10 >> the very generic global description and as such are considered a
11 >> good thing.
12 >
13 > They are a good thing if they provide additional information.
14 > But I don't see that in the two descriptions above.
15
16 nod. that's what I tried to say above. :) and it's fixed now, thanks
17 to william