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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag documentation
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:24:01
Message-Id: 1200450219.6149.45.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag documentation by Ryan Hill
1 On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 17:00 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote:
2 > My expectation is that `grep "flag" use.local.desc` will give me a
3 > list of packages using that flag (or having it in the description),
4 > one per line. Putting paragraphs in there doesn't seem right.
5
6 A single long line still fills this "requirement" for us. However, it
7 does bring up the point. Why even have use.local.desc (or
8 metadata.xml's <use> tag) at all? Is there really a need for a *global*
9 list of flags that are ebuild-specific? (I don't care or have much
10 opinion, either way, I'm merely presenting some topic for discussion on
11 this.)
12
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14 Chris Gianelloni
15 Release Engineering Strategic Lead
16 Games Developer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag documentation Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>