On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:15:25 +0100
Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 11:01:52 -0300
> Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Etc. ffmpeg is like the holy grail of local bindist descriptions.
> > 
> > bindist does absolutely nothing by itself there. do you really want
> > a description like "Enforces license compatibility constraints" ?
> > I consider this a subset of the current bindist description. If you
> > don't then maybe the bindist description should be updated.
> 
> Well, that's another problem we have there. I really like the ffmpeg
> idea of 'bindist' not doing anything by itself. If all packages did
> that, I would see no problem with having global meaningful 'bindist'.
> 
> But if in some cases USE=bindist does something, then I believe ffmpeg
> should describe that it just 'enforces REQUIRED_USE contraints' with
> no hidden magic beneath.

Yep you're right, I guess in that case it's good to add such a
description.

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