Re: [gentoo-dev] QA bikeshed: killing USE=dedicated in favor of uniform USE=client+server

[Alexandre Rostovtsev]

On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 19:42 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Right now, a number of game packages are using USE=dedicated to control
> 'installing a dedicated game server only'. Aside to that, some game
> packages also have USE=server that controls building the server itself.
> Non-game package use USE=client and USE=server.
>
> In order to improve uniformity of USE flags across different packages,
> the QA team would like to deprecate USE=dedicated and use USE=client
> and USE=server as appropriate.
>
> The problems I see with USE=dedicated are:
>
> - it is game-specific. The term 'dedicated server' is not used amongst
>   other server/client model packages.

Please leave the flag as is - for those users who will be using those
ebuilds to install and run dedicated game servers, it's standard and
expected terminology.