Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Duplicated entries in use.desc and use.local.desc

2006-02-13 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
Le Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:28:05 -0500, Mark Loeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > By allowing duplicate entries we just allow people to put useless > information in two places instead of one. > Maybe i'm a bit naive, but that sounds very pessimistic to me. I would rather think that devs who will a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Duplicated entries in use.desc and use.local.desc

2006-02-13 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
Le Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:39:22 -0600, R Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > TGL did some work on this under bug #84884, though his changes are > more invasive than what i had in mind. I don't see the need for > portage to dig through use.*desc when euse already works and equery > can pretty easily

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Duplicated entries in use.desc and use.local.desc

2006-02-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:19:29 -0500 Mark Loeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I don't see this as a groundbreaking change that requires a GLEP or | anything, especially since I eliminated most of the duplicates today, | after talking with the respective maintainers. There are probably | only 3 or 4

[gentoo-dev] Re: Duplicated entries in use.desc and use.local.desc

2006-02-12 Thread R Hill
Mark Loeser wrote: R Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Anyways I just like anything that makes use.desc more useful than foo - adds support for foo That's really a completely separate issue. By allowing duplicate entries we just allow people to put useless information in two places instead of o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Duplicated entries in use.desc and use.local.desc

2006-02-12 Thread Mark Loeser
R Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Anyways I just like anything that makes use.desc more useful than > > foo - adds support for foo That's really a completely separate issue. By allowing duplicate entries we just allow people to put useless information in two places instead of one. -- Mark Loe

[gentoo-dev] Re: Duplicated entries in use.desc and use.local.desc

2006-02-12 Thread R Hill
Marius Mauch wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:49:55 -0500 Mark Loeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On a more global scale, we should decide if this is valid though. I haven't exactly been convinced that it is useful, but I'm not opposed to the idea. I'd just like to see a decision one way or another

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Duplicated entries in use.desc and use.local.desc

2006-02-12 Thread Mark Loeser
Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Yeah, unfortunately none of the people proposing the idea ever wrote a > glep or even filed a bug regarding this (AFAIK), also as the quoted > threads show there are a number of possible solutions for this. It doesn't seem that too many people feel strongly

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Duplicated entries in use.desc and use.local.desc

2006-02-12 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:49:55 -0500 Mark Loeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > IIRC the idea behind duplication was not to use a flag for different > > purposes, but have a generic description in use.desc (like "doc: > > build additional docs") and give a mo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Duplicated entries in use.desc and use.local.desc

2006-02-12 Thread Mark Loeser
Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > IIRC the idea behind duplication was not to use a flag for different > purposes, but have a generic description in use.desc (like "doc: build > additional docs") and give a more detailed description in > use.local.desc (like "doc: build API docs and manual a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Duplicated entries in use.desc and use.local.desc

2006-02-12 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:49:26 +0100 Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > R Hill wrote: > > a global USE flag duplicated in use.local.desc could be used to > > give specific information about exactly what effect the flag has on > > a certain package, or if for some reason it does differ sligh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Duplicated entries in use.desc and use.local.desc

2006-02-12 Thread Simon Stelling
R Hill wrote: > a global USE flag duplicated in use.local.desc could be used to give specific > information about exactly what effect the flag has on a certain package, or if > for some reason it does differ slightly from the global meaning. > > global use flags (searching: doc) >

[gentoo-dev] Re: Duplicated entries in use.desc and use.local.desc

2006-02-12 Thread R Hill
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 03:19:25 -0500 Mark Loeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | So, what do we want to do about this? Should we have some repoman > | warning if a USE flag exists in both files, or should it be > | acceptable? > > The whole idea of global USE flags is that