Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:06:07 +0200 > Tiziano Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'd say we should convert it to a global use flag now with a good >> description and change it to gnome-keyring later in case we really >> have a package which needs 'keyring' for something else. > > Needless to say it would save quite a few users from needlessly > rebuilding a few packages. That's green thinking. :) > Sorry to get technical but how difficult is it really to change USE flag names? I appreciate that users are out of sync yadda yadda, but could this kind of thing not be considered out of band data similar to news?
I accept that portage has to maintain compatibility but aiui the old way of doing this was simply depending on a version of portage that had the capability. Since we're only talking about ~10 packages, is that so much of a hardship? After all, I'm sure the other manglers don't lag behind emerge, based on the hyperbole. Do they? -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
