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Bug 600730 - dev-util/mingw64-runtime: useless USE=tools description
Summary: dev-util/mingw64-runtime: useless USE=tools description
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers
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Blocks: 600712
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Reported: 2016-11-25 08:17 UTC by Michał Górny
Modified: 2019-02-13 23:21 UTC (History)
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Description Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2016-11-25 08:17:17 UTC
local:tools:dev-util/mingw64-runtime: Build extra tools.

It would be really nice if this could be extended to state what tools are installed, i.e. letting the user choose without having to conduct additional research.
Comment 1 Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-11-25 09:13:41 UTC
Same as in bug#600738 comment#1

This is upstream definition of tools, mainly cli utilities.
We do not hack upstream build systems, we expose some flexibility based on its concepts.

We are not documentation project for upstream.
Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2016-11-25 09:50:38 UTC
@Alonbl, I don't see you on toolchain project roster, and neither in metadata.xml. I'd appreciate if you didn't close bugs reported to somebody else.
Comment 3 Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-11-25 09:55:36 UTC
(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #2)
> @Alonbl, I don't see you on toolchain project roster, and neither in
> metadata.xml. I'd appreciate if you didn't close bugs reported to somebody
> else.

Please refer to the commit log of this package.
Comment 4 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2016-11-25 09:58:50 UTC
(In reply to Alon Bar-Lev from comment #3)
> Please refer to the commit log of this package.

If you are the maintainer for this package, please document that. We have appropriate ways of documenting who the maintainer is. Commit log is not one of them.

While at it, please also fix the USE flag description in metadata.xml. You'll save time doing both of that in one commit.
Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2016-11-25 15:55:07 UTC
Alon is an authority when it comes to mingw packages and has been for a long time.  not that this debate requires the "authority" of a "maintainer" as that seems like useless bureaucracy at this point.
Comment 6 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2017-08-29 21:04:38 UTC
Doesnt change that the use flag description is pretty much useless.
Comment 7 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2019-02-13 23:21:23 UTC
USE description was updated in https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=478d91086baa442fb578e0982063b93a19caf382