Re: [gentoo-dev] Should "server" be a global use flag?

[Anthony G. Basile]

On 05/23/2011 10:48 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 23 May 2011, Anthony G Basile wrote:
>> I was looking at use.desc/use.local.desc to see if the "server" flag is
>> global or not.  I was surprised to see that it is not.  There are 26
>> packages that use a local "server" flag and they all say something to
>> the effect "Enable ${PN} server support".
> From <http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/>:
>
> | If the effect of the USE flag upon pkg-one is substantially
> | different from the effect it has upon pkg-two, then the flag is not
> | a suitable candidate for being made a global flag. In particular,
> | note that if client and server USE flags are ever introduced, they
> | can not be global USE flags for this reason.
>
> Ulrich
>

My point was that the "server" flag has the *same* effect on all these
packages, ie to turn on their server support.  But the point was made on
#gentoo-dev that what is a server for one package is not the same as a
server for another package.  Thinking along those lines, the "server"
flag has a *different* effect on each package.

Reflecting on this, the stricter definition makes more sense, so I
retract my point.

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