And what about the usabillity of --newuse and the make.conf USE variable with these lots of meanings for each USE flag?
Don't you think it'll be compromised? --- Thomas de Grenier de Latour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 21:44:48 -0300 (ART) > Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I believe that in the future use.desc will have no > > use, mainly because all description will be > available > > in the ebuild file. > > Use.desc is relevant in most cases imho, thus i see > no point in > moving _all_ descriptions into ebuilds (that would > be way to much > duplication). In my opinion, that ebuilds or > metadata extension > only makes sense for special cases, to overide the > common > description from use.desc. > > Btw, in addition to doing it in metadata.xml or in > ebuilds, > there's a third possible implementation, that would > be putting > them in use.local.desc. For instance: > - use.desc: > dvdread - Enables usage of Ogle's libdvdread for DVD > playback > - use.local.desc: > media-video/mplayer:dvdread - Force usage of Ogle's > libdvdread \ > for DVD playback instead of the Mplayer's dvdkit. > > Tools that display this descriptions would just have > to ensure t > hat they take the one from use.local.desc in > priority when > available. That's probably the easier solution from > the "adapt > existing tools" point-of-view, but has the same > drawback as > putting description in metadata.xml (which is "two > files to > edit instead of one"). I still prefer the > in-ebuilds solution > personnaly. > > -- > TGL. > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > ===== Atenciosamente Romeu Henrique Capparelli Fonseca Sistemas Software Livre tel: (11) 81397109 mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________ Yahoo! Acesso Gr�tis - Instale o discador do Yahoo! agora. http://br.acesso.yahoo.com/ - Internet r�pida e gr�tis -- [email protected] mailing list
