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.