[gentoo-dev] New global USE flag - gs

[gentoo-dev] New global USE flag - gs

[Lares Moreau]

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media-gfx/graphicsmagick:gs - enable ghostscript support
media-gfx/imagemagick:gs - enable ghostscript support
media-libs/urt:gs - Add support for postscript

Looking in these ebuilds, all:
gs? ( virtual/ghostscript )

Please make global.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag - gs

[Drake Wyrm]

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Lares Moreau <lares.moreau@gmail.com> wrote:
> media-gfx/graphicsmagick:gs - enable ghostscript support
> media-gfx/imagemagick:gs - enable ghostscript support
> media-libs/urt:gs - Add support for postscript
> 
> Looking in these ebuilds, all:
> gs? ( virtual/ghostscript )

For how many of these might it make sense to use "ps - enable postscript
support" rather than "gs - enable ghostscript support"? If I understand
correctly, the consensus is that use flags should reflect the capability
enabled rather than the name of the library or package which provides
that capability.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag - gs

[Lares Moreau]

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On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 18:58 -0800, Drake Wyrm wrote:
> Lares Moreau <lares.moreau@gmail.com> wrote:
> > media-gfx/graphicsmagick:gs - enable ghostscript support
> > media-gfx/imagemagick:gs - enable ghostscript support
> > media-libs/urt:gs - Add support for postscript
> > 
> > Looking in these ebuilds, all:
> > gs? ( virtual/ghostscript )
> 
> For how many of these might it make sense to use "ps - enable postscript
> support" rather than "gs - enable ghostscript support"? If I understand
> correctly, the consensus is that use flags should reflect the capability
> enabled rather than the name of the library or package which provides
> that capability.

In doing some poking around and talking to a couple more devs, It seems
that the _unofficial_ consensus is that there be 5 or more packages that
use a particular flag before it is to move to global. There are
exception as always. Previously there has been great debate about where
the proverbial line is. Wherever the line, it must be posted to -dev
before the flag is committed to global.

And as for the flag reflecting the capability, you are absolutely
correct. The urt package seems to have mislabelled the entry in
use.local.desc.  

I'm just letting this global use die a quiet death.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag - gs

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 02:11, Lares Moreau wrote:
> And as for the flag reflecting the capability, you are absolutely
> correct. The urt package seems to have mislabelled the entry in
> use.local.desc.

not really ... urt uses ghostscript to add postscript capabilities, i just 
called it 'gs' because that was what was already in use

> I'm just letting this global use die a quiet death.

i'd bring it up again when we have more packages using it
-mike
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