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-rw-r--r--sys-fs/udev/metadata.xml13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/sys-fs/udev/metadata.xml b/sys-fs/udev/metadata.xml
index 8608bb1efc07..ae53fe939e26 100644
--- a/sys-fs/udev/metadata.xml
+++ b/sys-fs/udev/metadata.xml
@@ -5,18 +5,21 @@
<email>udev-bugs@gentoo.org</email>
</maintainer>
<use>
- <flag name="action_modeswitch">switch Mobile Action cables into serial mode</flag>
+ <flag name="action_modeswitch">switch Mobile Action cables into serial mode
+ (DEPRECATED, replaced by sys-apps/usb_modeswitch)</flag>
<flag name="edd">create /dev/disk/by-id/edd-* links for BIOS EDD data</flag>
- <flag name="extras">Compile udev-extras requiring external dependencies</flag>
- <flag name="firmware-loader">Enable deprecated firmware loader for use with older kernels</flag>
+ <flag name="extras">no-op USE flag (DEPRECATED, replaced by other USE flags in sys-fs/udev)</flag>
+ <flag name="firmware-loader">Enable userspace firmware loader (DEPRECATED,
+ replaced by loader in kernels 3.8 and newer)</flag>
<flag name="floppy">create historical floppy kernel device nodes (/dev/fd0h1440, ...)</flag>
<flag name="gudev">enable libudev gobject interface</flag>
<flag name="hwdb">read vendor/device string database and add it to udev database</flag>
<flag name="introspection">Use <pkg>dev-libs/gobject-introspection</pkg>
- for introspection</flag>
+ for introspection</flag>
<flag name="keymap">map custom hardware's multimedia keys</flag>
<flag name="kmod">enable udev to load kernel modules</flag>
- <flag name="rule_generator">enable persistent network and optical device rule generator</flag>
+ <flag name="rule_generator">enable persistent network and optical device rule generator
+ (DEPRECATED, replaced by the new predictable network interface names in udev 197 and newer</flag>
<flag name="openrc">install the OpenRC init scripts</flag>
</use>
</pkgmetadata>