On 31-03-2011 09:44:37 +0200, justin wrote: > First is a package specific, second is the default. > > And no, asuming the USE is introduced correctly here, it makes a > difference, whether we take the global meaning -> reading mp3 files at > all; or changing the way it is done for this package. Because here it > means, you could not disable mp3 support, but rather choose on which way > it should happen.
If a flag is in use.desc (global), then I should be able to put it in my USE= in my /etc/make.conf. That also means that the flag should only be used to do exactly as it says in use.desc, and nothing else. The package in question here should really use a different USE-flag, because it is overloading the original (intended?) meaning of the mp3 USE-flag, leading to possibly unexpected results for the end-user. There is nothing unclear on the descriptions here, the same flag is just used for two different things, which is wrong if the flag is global. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
