448932 – media-libs/mesa needs a local description of bindist USE-flag

Bug 448932 - media-libs/mesa needs a local description of bindist USE-flag

Summary: media-libs/mesa needs a local description of bindist USE-flag

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Matt Turner

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Reported:	2012-12-27 20:12 UTC by Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED)
Modified:	2012-12-29 17:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-12-27 20:12:41 UTC

The package has no local description for its bindist USE-flag. This leaves the end-user guessing at what is specifically done. This is *bad*. Users who care enough about licensing and distribution etc. will probably want to know what is specifically going on. For a good example of how to do this, see www-client/firefox.

Comment 1 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2012-12-28 00:50:41 UTC

How about:

<flag name='bindist'>Enable patent-encumbered ARB_texture_float, EXT_texture_shared_exponent, and EXT_packed_float extensions.</flag>

Comment 2 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2012-12-28 09:56:12 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
s/Enable/Disable/

Comment 3 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2012-12-29 17:06:18 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> s/Enable/Disable/

Ah, indeed. Thanks.

Committed.