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Hello. |
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Is it allowed (good idea) to override global USE flags in metadata.xml? |
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GLEP 56 in Motivation part give us such examples and media-libs/xine-lib |
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already uses this possibility but before GLEP 56 was implemented having |
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USE flag both in local.use.desc and use.desc was not allowed. |
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We already discussed this issue on -dev in "USE flag documentation" |
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thread(s) and although general opinion was that this is good idea (I |
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have not found objections) we still have documented that this is not |
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allowed. Cite from devmanual[1]: |
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"All USE flags must be described in either use.desc or use.local.desc in |
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the profiles/ directory." |
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Personally I think that this is good idea to specialize global USE flags |
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description in metadata.xml. In such case global USE flag description |
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still correct, and we just adjust their meaning for specific package. |
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What others think? |
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P.S. After I wrote this e-mail I found bug 235708 [1] which discusses |
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same issue but I still think -dev is better place for such discussion. |
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[1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/index.html |
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[2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235708 |
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Peter. |
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