On Thursday 22 December 2005 20:14, Drake Wyrm wrote:
> Query: Which would be more appropriate in this case? "jasper" for the
> library it pulls in as a depend, or "jpeg2k" for the functionality that
> library provides? There's nothing else in the tree (as far as I can
> tell) which provides JPEG-2000, but there could be.

It is imho a _problem_ when use flags are _unnecessarily_ named after the 
library instead the provided functionality. When there are two libs doing the 
same thing, a single use flag should suffice: Less use flags mean reduced 
complexity for the user, who likely will understand what "jpeg2k" means, but 
not "jasper". Which leads me to the next issue; Often you can read:

foo - enables support for $category/foo

Such a description is as good as none. To give a sample how it should be:

jpeg2k - Support for JPEG 2000, a wavelet-based image compression format.


Carsten