Re: [gentoo-dev] another global use flag...

[Meder Bakirov <bakirov@transfer.kg>]

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I, as a regular user, second this.

Before we had a 'bzlib' USE-flag, and now it is 'bzip2', which is more 
user-friendlier for users to understand. 

On Friday 23 December 2005 03:52, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
> 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

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С уважением,

Медер Бакиров

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