Re: [gentoo-dev] Local bindist descriptions

2013-01-02 Thread Cyprien Nicolas
Alexis Ballier wrote: It's probably too idealistic but I tend to consider that global flags should be enabled/disabled globally while local flags on a per-package basis. bindist is really something you want to enable globally. On the other hand, doc is a global flag you don't want to enable

Re: [gentoo-dev] Local bindist descriptions

2013-01-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 02 January 2013 12:58:01 Cyprien Nicolas wrote: Alexis Ballier wrote: It's probably too idealistic but I tend to consider that global flags should be enabled/disabled globally while local flags on a per-package basis. bindist is really something you want to enable globally.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Local bindist descriptions

2012-12-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 30/12/2012 04:03, Mike Gilbert wrote: That would be much more effective than a policy that may be (accidentally) ignored. +1 -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Local bindist descriptions

2012-12-30 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/12/12 12:39, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 30/12/2012 04:03, Mike Gilbert wrote: That would be much more effective than a policy that may be (accidentally) ignored. +1 +1 from me as well. A much simpler and reliable way of achieving what

Re: [gentoo-dev] Local bindist descriptions

2012-12-30 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:42:23 +0100 Alexander Berntsen alexan...@plaimi.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/12/12 12:39, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 30/12/2012 04:03, Mike Gilbert wrote: That would be much more effective than a policy that may be

[gentoo-dev] Local bindist descriptions

2012-12-29 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 All packages should have local descriptions of what the bindist USE-flag specifically does. This should be a policy when writing ebuilds that include it. The bindist USE-flag is for avoiding components in a package that would result in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Local bindist descriptions

2012-12-29 Thread Matt Turner
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Alexander Berntsen alexan...@plaimi.net wrote: All packages should have local descriptions of what the bindist USE-flag specifically does. This should be a policy when writing ebuilds that include it. Agreed. media-libs/mesa Fixed. (bug 448932)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Local bindist descriptions

2012-12-29 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Alexander Berntsen alexan...@plaimi.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 All packages should have local descriptions of what the bindist USE-flag specifically does. This should be a policy when writing ebuilds that include it. ... I