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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flag name collision in use.local.desc "graphite"
From: Kent Fredric <kentnl () gentoo ! org>
Date: 2017-04-30 13:58:20
Message-ID: 20170501015820.2b5bc919 () katipo2 ! lan
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On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 09:48:58 -0400
Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org> wrote:
> If they want to enable a flag to apply system-wide, then it does not
> matter where the description is. To users, a USE flag is a USE flag.
Terminology wise, this is more a side effect that users are exposed to
global methods of setting use flags first, and specific methods of
setting use flags second.
The reality is *all* USE flags have behaviour specific to the packages
they're on.
Just some packages share the same interpretations of the same flags,
and so it *can* make sense to set them simultaneously for multiple
packages.
But this ends up in a "Cognition, Language, Naming things and
Namespaces are hard" corner either way.
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