Re: [gentoo-dev] introspection use flag

[Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org>]

Le vendredi 06 mai 2011 à 10:40 +0200, Marijn a écrit :
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> Dear all,
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> I was just looking into the meaning of the introspection use-flag and
> there are many ebuilds that use it so perhaps it should be globalized,
> which would also give us a chance to improve the naming/description.
> Current descriptions are:
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> Use dev-libs/gobject-introspection for introspection
> Enable GObject introspection.
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> Currently it is hard to tell which functionality is enabled through this
> flag and the meaning of the descriptions for when the flag is off are
> even more unclear. Does it mean that introspection will not be used or
> will some other way of introspection be used? Either way, perhaps the
> people in the know could shed some light on this issue?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Marijn

See original thread on this mailing list:

From: 		Arun Raghavan <ford_prefect@gentoo.org>
Subject: 	[gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection
Date: 		Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:12:58 +0530 (20/06/2010 16:42:58)
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