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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE Flag Grouping) with -@GROUP goodness
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:48:17
Message-Id: 1099061144.3380.81.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE Flag Grouping) with -@GROUP goodness by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 15:39 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:27:25 -0400 Chris Gianelloni
3 > <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote:
4 > | Well, simply making it so that a USE flag can only belong to one group
5 > | or no groups. There are plenty of things that can be taken this way.
6 >
7 > Again, that's another arbitrary annoying constraint. I'd rather have no
8 > -@GROUP than no duplicates.
9 >
10 > | Also, local USE flags should definitely never be included in groups.
11 > | I'm not sure if you had specified that.
12 >
13 > Got a really good reason why not?
14
15 Because local USE flags should remain in the local package scope and not
16 be brought into the global scope... unless you want to allow local USE
17 grouping, too.
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