From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OQhtL-0005vd-TV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:22:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AAD08E090B; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:22:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D5F5E0855 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:22:09 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvwGAKMSH0zO+LlE/2dsb2JhbACSbYtLWHLCcIUbBI0e X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.53,453,1272859200"; d="asc'?scan'208";a="68481452" Received: from 206-248-185-68.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO box.tester.ca) ([206.248.185.68]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 21 Jun 2010 10:22:09 -0400 Received: by box.tester.ca (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 06796980267; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:22:09 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection From: Olivier =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Cr=EAte?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <201006210933.57444.reavertm@gmail.com> References: <201006210933.57444.reavertm@gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-uvHClD/ZGcQcssQp4YrY" Organization: Gentoo Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:22:08 -0400 Message-ID: <1277130128.7004.43.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3.1 X-Archives-Salt: 5cefe379-f811-4bb3-b70b-d59aadeab315 X-Archives-Hash: 1e64a9bfc90cdfafa764b1fa783e2b6d --=-uvHClD/ZGcQcssQp4YrY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 09:33 +0200, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > On Sunday 20 of June 2010 16:42:58 Arun Raghavan wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I'd like to propose a new global USE-flag: introspection. > >=20 > > The purpose of the flag is to enable the building of GIR for the > > package using dev-libs/gobject-introspection. gobject-introspection is > > going to be quite important in upcoming GNOME releases, allowing for > > the automated generation of bindings for several languages. > >=20 > > We already have 13 packages using this flag, with several more to > > come. The current description being used in packages' metadata.xml > > sucks - I'll put something more descriptive in the final flag. > >=20 > > Any objections? I'll wait till Wed (June 23rd) before adding this if > > there aren't any. >=20 > I don't mind adding it as globally recognizable USE flag, I'd mind howeve= r=20 > having it enabled by default in desktop/base profile. If Gnome needs it,=20 > please enable it in gnome subprofile if you wish (apart from setting all=20 > required USE deps in ebuilds), you can also use IUSE defaults for it whic= h=20 > would allow more fine grained control or if you or Gnome devs decided to = drop=20 > the idea at some point. Oh no! You'll have two small data files for each package! That's so terrible! You should definitely look through /usr/share, there are lots of other files you dont absolutely need too. Maybe you should start filing bugs against every package that install these tiny files you don't need! All those wasted inodes! --=20 Olivier Cr=EAte tester@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer --=-uvHClD/ZGcQcssQp4YrY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkwfdZAACgkQHTiOWk7Zortl1gCbByf7aQfYMgP2Q/zx32XzWb5O Q4cAnjpJOA7YV5rYgJiKkTNk78iuxqqb =8b5l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-uvHClD/ZGcQcssQp4YrY--