Re: [gentoo-dev] global USE flag overrides in metadata.xml (bug 235708)

2008-09-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 00:19 Wed 03 Sep , Peter Volkov wrote: > Personally I think that this is good idea to specialize global USE flags > description in metadata.xml. In such case global USE flag description > still correct, and we just adjust their meaning for specific package. > What others think? Yes, an over

Re: [gentoo-dev] global USE flag overrides in metadata.xml (bug 235708)

2008-09-02 Thread Doug Goldstein
Peter Volkov wrote: > Hello. > > Is it allowed (good idea) to override global USE flags in metadata.xml? > > > Yes. That was the whole point of this. That's why I started it because Halc0yn said we could not override global USE flags (use.desc) in local USE flag (use.local.desc). The devmanual

[gentoo-dev] global USE flag overrides in metadata.xml (bug 235708)

2008-09-02 Thread Peter Volkov
Hello. Is it allowed (good idea) to override global USE flags in metadata.xml? GLEP 56 in Motivation part give us such examples and media-libs/xine-lib already uses this possibility but before GLEP 56 was implemented having USE flag both in local.use.desc and use.desc was not allowed. We already