Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-17 Thread Petteri Räty
Doug Goldstein kirjoitti: All, Here's a GLEP for the addition of USE flag descriptions to package metadata. It does not address any future ideas that others may have had or suggested. It merely gives developers the necessary "tools" to document their USE flag usage it better detail on a per p

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 17:11 Fri 06 Jun , Marius Mauch wrote: > It's not about "forcing" anyone to do something but giving people enough > information on how to implement it _if they choose to do so_. With the > current GLEP they'd have to make arbitrary decisions if e.g. a flag is > defined in both use.local.desc

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-06 Thread Steve Dibb
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:42:24 -0400 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's a GLEP for the addition of USE flag descriptions to package metadata. It does not address any future ideas that others may have had or suggested. It merely gives developers the necessary "t

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:42:24 -0400 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a GLEP for the addition of USE flag descriptions to package > metadata. It does not address any future ideas that others may have > had or suggested. It merely gives developers the necessary "tools" to > documen

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:40:36 +0200 Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug Goldstein wrote: > > An clearly motivation explanation that I didn't add, which I'm > > going to add once I send this is the fact that as per the QA > > Project, use.local.desc can not contain a USE flag that alrea

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-06 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Marius Mauch wrote: It's not about "forcing" anyone to do something but giving people enough information on how to implement it _if they choose to do so_. With the current GLEP they'd have to make arbitrary decisions if e.g. a flag is defined in both use.local.desc and metadata.xml, or some peopl

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-06 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Doug Goldstein wrote: An clearly motivation explanation that I didn't add, which I'm going to add once I send this is the fact that as per the QA Project, use.local.desc can not contain a USE flag that already appears globally in use.desc. This would allow a description for that USE flag to be

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-06 Thread Marius Mauch
On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:51:22 -0400 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Replying to myself is evil, but I'm going to try to clarify a bit > more. GLEPs are more like RFCs. We can't force any application to do > anything with a GLEP. We technically can't even force Portage to do > anything i

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-06 Thread Doug Goldstein
Doug Goldstein wrote: Marius Mauch wrote: On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:01:00 -0400 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marius Mauch wrote: On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:42:24 -0400 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All, Here's a GLEP for the addition of USE flag descriptions

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-05 Thread Doug Goldstein
Marius Mauch wrote: On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:01:00 -0400 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marius Mauch wrote: On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:42:24 -0400 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All, Here's a GLEP for the addition of USE flag descriptions to package metada

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-05 Thread Marius Mauch
On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:01:00 -0400 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marius Mauch wrote: > > On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:42:24 -0400 > > Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> All, > >> > >> Here's a GLEP for the addition of USE flag descriptions to package > >> metadata.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-05 Thread Doug Goldstein
Marius Mauch wrote: On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:42:24 -0400 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All, Here's a GLEP for the addition of USE flag descriptions to package metadata. It does not address any future ideas that others may have had or suggested. It merely gives developers the nece

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-05 Thread Marius Mauch
On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:42:24 -0400 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > Here's a GLEP for the addition of USE flag descriptions to package > metadata. It does not address any future ideas that others may have > had or suggested. It merely gives developers the necessary "tools" to

[gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-05 Thread Doug Goldstein
All, Here's a GLEP for the addition of USE flag descriptions to package metadata. It does not address any future ideas that others may have had or suggested. It merely gives developers the necessary "tools" to document their USE flag usage it better detail on a per package basis. An clearly