Re: [gentoo-dev] Should "server" be a global use flag?

[Jeroen Roovers]

On Mon, 23 May 2011 10:26:49 -0400
"Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> wrote:

> If yes, what's the procedure?

Add the global one to use.desc.

Then remove the local ones from their respective metadata.xml files.
use.local.desc will be adjusted accordingly in time - no need to hurry.

> We'd have to have a lot of
> metadata.xml's change.  I'm not sure what happens if you
> simultaneously have a local and global USE flag by the same name
> (although I'm going to test in a minute on an overlay :)

They can happily coexist. No need to remove them simultaneously.


Regards,
     jer