Vlastimil Babka wrote:
Ryan Hill wrote:
What do people think of this?
a) Keep use.desc as it is: a list of common flags and a short general
description of their meaning.
Good.
b) Keep use.local.desc as it is: a list of per-package flags that are
specific to one to a few ebuilds (i think 5 is the number though i
think 10 is more appropriate, but that's not relevant to this
discussion). Again, each has a short description.
c) Allow flags from use.desc to also exist in use.local.desc. In the
case that a flag for a package exists in both, the use.local.desc
description overrides the use.desc one. This allows a more specific
per-package description of global flags.
Good.
d) Allow long descriptions in a package's metadata.xml, as some have
begun to do already, for cases where more info is needed. For example
I'd like to explain exactly what the bindist flag on freetype does and
what legal implications disabling it can have.
Right. Also why not also add short descriptions there, and deprecate
use.local.desc when tools are converted? Placing package-local info to
global files (when not needed to distinguish profiles as with
package.use.mask etc) is icky.
Note that the metadata.xml should be able to record per-version
differences somehow.
Then instead of grepping a file I would need to read XML. Also icky. Utils
would help, but then utils would need to implement an XML parser.
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