On Monday 30 January 2006 20:54, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:46:28 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | On Monday 30 January 2006 16:43, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | > On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:17:36 +0100 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" > | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > | Also, as repoman complain about linguas_blabla not being a valid > | > | useflags, all the linguas_* useflags should be listed in use.desc > | > > | > No, part of the point of USE_EXPAND is that they shouldn't. This is > | > a repoman bug. > | > | I have yet to be enlightened on any merit of USE_EXPAND is so perhaps > | you could explain as to why there should be > | user-configured-yet-undocumented options for ebuilds? More precisely, > | how should they be documented if not via use.desc? > > 1. Because for things like LINGUAS, there are arbitrarily many legal > values, and documenting them all and keeping the list up to date would > be extremely difficult.
"More precisely, how should they be documented if not via use.desc?" > 2. Because USE_EXPAND is used for special USE things like arch and > userland, and because we undocumented the special arch USE flags > because they're not user settable. These variables are internal and not meant to be user configurable. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
