On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 01/01/2010 12:07 AM, Robin H. Johnson (robbat2) wrote: >> +app-accessibility/flite:alsa - use alsa for audio output. >> +app-accessibility/flite:oss - Use Open Sound System for audio output. > > Why? USE alsa and oss are global flags. > >
Real question is why not? local USE flags provide more details than the very generic global description and as such are considered a good thing. That is one of the purposes I had in mind originally when I wrote GLEP 56 [1]. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0056.html -- Doug Goldstein
