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Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o> said: |
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> Mark Loeser wrote: |
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>> Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o> said: |
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>>> c) Allow flags from use.desc to also exist in use.local.desc. In the |
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>>> case that a flag for a package exists in both, the use.local.desc |
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>>> description overrides the use.desc one. This allows a more specific |
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>>> per-package description of global flags. |
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>> Still doing alright :) |
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>>> d) Allow long descriptions in a package's metadata.xml, as some have |
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>>> begun to do already, for cases where more info is needed. For example |
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>>> I'd like to explain exactly what the bindist flag on freetype does and |
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>>> what legal implications disabling it can have. |
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>> Why can't this be done in use.local.desc? |
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> My expectation is that `grep "flag" use.local.desc` will give me a list of |
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> packages using that flag (or having it in the description), one per line. |
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> Putting paragraphs in there doesn't seem right. |
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One could argue that you can't do that currently for DEPEND strings and |
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such, so that seems like a possibly weak argument to me. Just because |
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you can do something right now doesn't mean it was meant to be that way, |
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or shouldn't be changed to make things better :) |
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Either way, I would prefer (and I'm sure others will as well since it |
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will cut down on confusion) if we pick either use.local.desc or to move |
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them into metadata.xml. Having it possibly be in both places just seems |
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silly. |
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-- |
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Mark Loeser |
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email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org |
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email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com |
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web - http://www.halcy0n.com |
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