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On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 22:19:39 +0200 Daniel Stiefelmaier |
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<mail@××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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| I'd like to have a functionality that prints out what the useflags of |
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| a ebuild are good for. Some are obvious, others are not. Example: |
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| The useflag "xprint" sounds like printing support, but doesn't tell |
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| if you need it if you use cups or the kde-printing system or... |
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| whatever. |
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We've discussed adding this to metadata.xml a few times in the past, |
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but every time there was opposition from a vocal minority of one who |
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claimed that USE flags should always do exactly the same thing for |
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every package. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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