[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Council meeting summary for 10 July 2008

[Tiziano Müller]

Doug Goldstein wrote:

> Tiziano Müller wrote:
>> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Here is the summary from Thursday's council meeting. The complete log
>>> will show up at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ shortly.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> wrt GLEP 56:
>>
>> i) I don't see a specification when use.local.desc is finally going to be
>> dropped
>> ii) Why not switch to XML for use.desc as well? (just to be consequent)
>> We could then use XInclude in a package's metadata.xml to include a
>> global use.desc.xml in <use>...</use>
>> (The requirements could then be changed to: the USE flags description has
>> to be written in the packages metadata.xml)
>>
>>
>>
> Incremental steps are better then one huge sweeping change. It'll allow
> us to evaluate the needs and goals of the project as we move forward.
I agree.

> The big concern with dropping use.desc is that multiple USE flags that
> do the same thing will start to pop up across the whole tree because
> developers won't know that a USE flag already exists for feature X.
I'd not drop use.desc, I'd substitute it with an XML-based file using a
similar (or the same) syntax as metadata.xml.
But instead of having the package manager (or other tools operating with USE
flags/USE flag descriptions) to lookup in either a package's metadata.xml
_or_ a global use.desc.xml, I'd use XInclude in metadata.xml (which then
includes the global use.desc.xml) such that the package manager (or other
tools) just have to consider a package's metadata.xml.
This approach would make it possible to have more than one use.desc.xml.
For example for kde or gnome related global USE-flags: kde.use.desc.xml or
gnome.use.desc.xml.


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