369255 – www-client/firefox should provide local USE flag description of bindist

Bug 369255 - www-client/firefox should provide local USE flag description of bindist

Summary: www-client/firefox should provide local USE flag description of bindist

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team

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Reported:	2011-05-30 03:10 UTC by Donald
Modified:	2012-01-28 06:12 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Donald 2011-05-30 03:10:46 UTC

We need an entry in /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc to explain what the bindist flag actually does for this package.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
equery u firefox (with >=app-portage/gentoolkit-0.3)

Actual Results:  
 * Found these USE flags for www-client/firefox-3.6.17:
 U I
 [...]
 - - bindist              : Flag to enable or disable options for prebuilt
                            (GRP)  packages (eg. due to licensing issues)
 [...]


Expected Results:  
An explanation that (apparently) enabling bindist disables "official branding". (And why is this useful/necessary?)

Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2011-06-24 13:23:45 UTC

It is in the ebuild. But, I agree and think that we can take it *out* of the ebuild and only place it in metadata.xml.

    if ! use bindist ; then
        einfo
        elog "You are enabling official branding. You may not redistribute this build" 
        elog "to any users on your network or the internet. Doing so puts yourself into"
        elog "a legal problem with Mozilla Foundation"
        elog "You can disable it by emerging ${PN} _with_ the bindist USE-flag"
    fi

Comment 2 Nirbheek Chauhan (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-01-28 06:12:53 UTC

Fixed in the tree, thanks!