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 1QIK72-0003X5-9W for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 May 2011 12:26:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE5EE1C048; Fri, 6 May 2011 12:26:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.fr.smartjog.net (mx.fr.smartjog.net [95.81.144.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F9961C02D for ; Fri, 6 May 2011 12:25:46 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] introspection use flag From: Gilles Dartiguelongue To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4DC3B407.50901@gentoo.org> References: <4DC3B407.50901@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Gentoo Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 14:25:38 +0200 Message-ID: <1304684738.4741.4.camel@gdartigu.lan.rep.sj> 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: SmartJog/privacy Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 56f25782795ef430d4853e55b9d56acb Le vendredi 06 mai 2011 =C3=A0 10:40 +0200, Marijn a =C3=A9crit : > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 >=20 > Dear all, >=20 > 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: >=20 > Use dev-libs/gobject-introspection for introspection > Enable GObject introspection. >=20 > Currently it is hard to tell which functionality is enabled through thi= s > 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? >=20 > Thanks, >=20 > Marijn See original thread on this mailing list: From: Arun Raghavan Subject: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:12:58 +0530 (20/06/2010 16:42:58) Message-ID: --=20 Gilles Dartiguelongue Gentoo