From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IebmD-0004Ui-N8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:26:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l97JFtwt011801; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 19:15:55 GMT Received: from eric.schwarzvogel.de (eric.schwarzvogel.de [194.97.4.250]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l97JCPsg005693 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 19:12:25 GMT Received: from klausman by eric.schwarzvogel.de with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IebY9-0003jZ-D4 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:12:25 +0200 Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 21:12:25 +0200 From: Tobias Klausmann To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: use flags -> use options Message-ID: <20071007191225.GB10856@eric.schwarzvogel.de> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <47090820.7060506@gentoo.org> <20071007200938.7e1cebb3@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071007200938.7e1cebb3@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: c9d30f3f-e2fd-40f3-9751-40ef444a7562 X-Archives-Hash: 5a959f62f7d217f7da7294619cdff4ca Hi! On Sun, 07 Oct 2007, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" : > > I imagine there are a lot more cases where the simple on/off system > > we have now is suboptimal. I could be wrong of course. Please comment. > > This key=value systems sounds interesting. Another use could be the > choice between xulrunner, seamonkey, firefox. And maybe it can be alleviated for some of the virtuals problem space. For those apps that need an editor, one could think of editor=vim. That would then of course raise the question of a sensible default - as it is with virtual/editor right now. Generally, its prime area of use is where something can be turned off (foo=off) or turned on with different ways of getting the functionality (foo=gnufoo, foo=freefoo, foo=foong). Another thing to keep in mind is though, that gnufoo might not have all the nifty-but-patent-ridden stuff that freefoo has. Then again, the user/sysadmin should know which of those fits the bill. The question would only be how to convey this info to the admin. Regards, Tobias -- In the future, everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list