584288 – profiles/desc: lacks descriptions for ARCH USE_EXPAND

Bug 584288 - profiles/desc: lacks descriptions for ARCH USE_EXPAND

Summary: profiles/desc: lacks descriptions for ARCH USE_EXPAND

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Quality Assurance Team

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Reported:	2016-05-27 06:34 UTC by Michał Górny
Modified:	2016-05-27 19:55 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Michał Górny archtester

2016-05-27 06:34:55 UTC

While ARCH is being kinda special, I don't see PMS specifying that it doesn't need to be described alike other USE_EXPANDs, using profiles/desc. Unless I'm mistaken, we should add proper descriptions there.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2016-05-27 09:34:39 UTC

PMS reference: https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/6/pms.html#x1-350004.4

   desc/
      This directory contains files analogous to use.desc for the various
      USE_EXPAND variables. Each file in it is named <varname>.desc, where
      <varname> is the variable name, in lowercase, whose possible values the
      file describes. The format of each file is as for use.desc, described
      in section 4.4.3. The USE_EXPAND name is not included as a prefix here.

So literally, variables from USE_EXPAND_UNPREFIXED don't have a file there.

Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester

2016-05-27 19:55:38 UTC

Ok, thanks for clarifying. That works for me.