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Jose Luis Rivero wrote: |
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> Hi all: |
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> I've read on the planet the recently included support to document USE |
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> flags in metadata. Seems like it was an idea from flameeyes and cardoe, |
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> discussed on the planet [1][2] and performed by -infra (bug #199788). |
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> While planet is a good medium to share ideas and get contributors, seems to |
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> me like we need a more official way to discuss this kind of 'global' |
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> ideas before make them real. Or at least drop a note on -dev-announce |
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> explaining the new feature and telling devs and users this is now |
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> officially supported. |
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Thank you for taking the time to announce it to gentoo-dev since I |
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haven't had the time with my family being here for the holidays to do |
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such. I'll take care of the e-mail to gentoo-dev-announce though. |
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> I'm not asking for an extra overhead of 'bureaucracy' (write specs, |
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> mailling @dev, send to the council, etc.) but a bit more of communication |
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> would be appreciated: |
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All the above is completely unnecessary and I would be happy to discuss |
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details with you off list. |
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> Is the feature ready to be used? Is there any kind of documentation |
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> (aside of DTD)? It will replace use.desc? |
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Well the first question you answered yourself. You linked to a post I |
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wrote describing live commits I made to the tree using this feature. As |
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far as documentation, you will find that in your Gentoo Developer's |
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Handbook [3], but most likely you'll say "But Doug, I don't see anything |
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on these new changes." That's because the new changes have not been |
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updated yet, again with the holiday's about it takes a little bit to get |
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things done. Once the documentation is updated I had planned on sending |
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an e-mail to gentoo-dev and gentoo-dev-announce. |
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As far as replacing use.desc, that is doubtful but a possibility of |
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replacing use.local.desc is within consideration. However this would be |
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in the distant future and we would have to see how the new features are |
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used and evolve. |
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> Thanks. |
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> [1] http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/11/24/proposing-more-use-flag-documentation |
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> [2] http://blog.cardoe.com/archives/2007/11/23/metadataxml-updates-examples/ |
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[3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=4 |
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