Re: [gentoo-dev] Global USE flag: git

[hasufell]

On 08/03/2013 12:38 AM, Michael Weber wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we have "subversion" and "cvs" ad global flags, but not "git" (or
> hg|mercurial). I'm about to add the 14th [1] package using this flag.
>
> I propose a description
> "git - Enable git (version control system) support"
> in use.desc.
>
> Yes/No?
>
> Timeout in 7 days.
>
>    Michael
>
> [1] % grep ":git " /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc
> app-admin/pass:git - Use dev-vcs/git for password revisions.
> app-editors/gedit-plugins:git - Shows document changes related to git's HEAD
> app-portage/layman:git - Support dev-vcs/git based overlays
> dev-python/anyvc:git - Add support for Git
> dev-qt/qt-creator:git - Add support for dev-vcs/git version control system
> dev-util/metro:git - Enable support for git snapshots
> dev-util/monodevelop:git - Enable Git version control support
> dev-vcs/cvs2svn:git - Support for dev-vcs/git
> dev-vcs/fromcvs:git - Add support for conversion to dev-vcs/git repositories
> dev-vcs/rabbitvcs:git - Enable plugin for dev-vcs/git
> kde-base/dolphin-plugins:git - Enable support for the git VCS
> sys-devel/gettext:git - When running `autopoint`, use git to store the
> internal development files; this requires git at runtime, but will be
> faster/smaller than raw archives
> xfce-extra/thunar-vcs-plugin:git - Enable dev-vcs/git support
>
>
> [2] % grep -ir version /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc
> cvs - Enable CVS (Concurrent Versions System) integration
> [...]
> subversion - Enable subversion (version control system) support
>
>

I find it a bit silly to require discussing global useflags on dev-ML.
You find 10+ _similar_ usecases for that flag (it happens that the name
is the same, but the usecase is pretty different), then just go ahead.

Ofc, IMO.

In the end, this doesn't change much anyway.

do it.