Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

[Steve Dibb]

Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:42:24 -0400
> Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> wrote:
>> Here's a GLEP for the addition of USE flag descriptions to package
>> metadata. It does not address any future ideas that others may have
>> had or suggested. It merely gives developers the necessary "tools" to
>> document their USE flag usage it better detail on a per package basis.
>
> There should also be a way of referring to a use flag owned by either
> this or another package. For example:
>
> <flag name="foo">Enables support for fooing. Ignored unless <flagref
> name="bar">plugin</flagref> support is enabled for this package and
> <flagref restrict="app-misc/foo" name="bindings">bindings</flagref> is
> enabled for <pkg>app-misc/foo</pkg>.</flag>
>
> But that's rather ugly... There's probably a nicer way of marking it up
> using XML.
>

What about just nesting them?

<flag name foo>
	<flag name bar>Turns on hawt chicks</flag>
	<flag name baz>Turns on welp</flag>
</flag>

Of course, you probably couldn't tell that just by looking at them, but 
it's an idea.

Steve
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