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From: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Global USE flags (Was: mplayer global use flag)
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:56:32
Message-Id: 81bfc67a0610281353q5a13d086j7393e8cc9edfb70f@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Global USE flags (Was: mplayer global use flag) by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 >
2 > cairo and openexr, good idea, AFAIK. udev has come up before but from
3 > that discussion, the flag means slightly different things in some cases.
4 > Keeping it local allows individual per-pkg descriptions, so where it means
5 > something different, the description can say so. In both meanings, udev
6 > defaulting to on remained best, but with the slightly different meanings...
7 > There was some discussion about modifying things or changing the flag
8 > where it meant something else, but I don't know what came of that.
9 >
10
11 maybe it would be a lot of work. to even develop the tools. but it
12 would be nice if a global use flag could have a detailed option.
13
14 example.
15
16 euse -i mplayer
17 [+ C ] mplayer - Enable mplayer support for playback or encoding
18
19 is what we currently get.
20
21 add a -d option for --descriptive
22 euse -id mplayer could show something like
23 [+ C ] mplayer - Enable mplayer support for playback or encoding
24 media-video/kmplayer - adds the ability to play back media using
25 the mplayer engine
26
27 or maybe something better...
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