Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improved ebuild information

2005-10-10 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:23:29 -0600 R Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what other than equery would need to be fixed to recognize > the overlay? is there anything that would explicitly break if a > USE flag was in both use.desc and use.local.desc? > Last time this feature was discussed here, i

[gentoo-dev] Re: Improved ebuild information

2005-10-10 Thread R Hill
Chris Gianelloni wrote: Here's my question... use.local.desc is already package-specific, so why would we need yet *another* place to put package-specific definitions? Would it not be enough to have use.local.desc overlay on use.desc? If package foo uses global USE flag bar in a way different f

[gentoo-dev] Re: Improved ebuild information

2005-10-10 Thread Apreche
Bruno internet.lu> writes: > > On Monday 10 October 2005 14:53, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > > Here's my question... use.local.desc is already package-specific, so why > > would we need yet *another* place to put package-specific definitions? > > Would it not be enough to have use.local.desc ov

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improved ebuild information

2005-10-10 Thread Bruno
On Monday 10 October 2005 14:53, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > Here's my question... use.local.desc is already package-specific, so why > would we need yet *another* place to put package-specific definitions? > Would it not be enough to have use.local.desc overlay on use.desc? If > package foo uses

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improved ebuild information

2005-10-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 15:13 -0600, R Hill wrote: > Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 21:22 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> We've discussed adding this to metadata.xml a few times in the past, > >> but every time there was opposition from a vocal minority of one who > >> claimed t

[gentoo-dev] Re: Improved ebuild information

2005-10-07 Thread R Hill
Martin Schlemmer wrote: On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 21:22 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: We've discussed adding this to metadata.xml a few times in the past, but every time there was opposition from a vocal minority of one who claimed that USE flags should always do exactly the same thing for every pac