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On 05/23/2011 12:37 PM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Mon, 23 May 2011 16:48:15 +0200 |
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> Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> |
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>>>>>>> On Mon, 23 May 2011, Anthony G Basile wrote: |
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>>> I was looking at use.desc/use.local.desc to see if the "server" |
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>>> flag is global or not. I was surprised to see that it is not. |
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>>> There are 26 packages that use a local "server" flag and they all |
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>>> say something to the effect "Enable ${PN} server support". |
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>> From <http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/>: |
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>> | If the effect of the USE flag upon pkg-one is substantially |
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>> | different from the effect it has upon pkg-two, then the flag is not |
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>> | a suitable candidate for being made a global flag. In particular, |
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>> | note that if client and server USE flags are ever introduced, they |
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>> | can not be global USE flags for this reason. |
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> With that definition, USE=crypt should definitely not be global. |
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Yep. Eg. USE="crypt" for evolution means dependence on app-crypt/gnupg |
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and is local while USE="crypt" for thunderbird means dependency on |
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x11-plugins/enigmail and is global. Both are substantially different |
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from what USE="crypt" means for util-linux which enables crypto-loop and |
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is a global. |
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Ouch! |
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