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On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:19:55 -0500 |
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Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> wrote: |
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> Jose Luis Rivero wrote: |
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> > Is the feature ready to be used? Is there any kind of documentation |
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> > (aside of DTD)? It will replace use.desc? |
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> Well the first question you answered yourself. You linked to a post I |
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> wrote describing live commits I made to the tree using this feature. |
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...which is all very well, but have you added support to the various |
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programs that handle use flags for this new functionality? |
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Really, you should have gone for a GLEP for this -- as previous |
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metadata GLEPs have shown, it doesn't take long to go through the GLEP |
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process and it results in substantially better decisions. The proposal |
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as you implemented it isn't perfect -- in particular, <pkg> the way |
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you've done it isn't an optimal solution (think version operators and |
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so on -- how are they to be handled?). And what about referring to |
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other named USE flags, either globally or those associated with a |
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particular package? |
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Please revert the commits and go back and follow the proper process |
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here. Whilst it's nice to see things I suggested years ago finally |
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getting somewhere, it'd be better to see it done to its full potential. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |