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 1OQb3T-0000tA-Ce for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:04:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F9E1E0924; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:04:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5144BE090E for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:03:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from portable.localnet (agw-sparknet.utu.fi [130.232.202.233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C543D1B4063 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:03:13 +0000 (UTC) From: Alexis Ballier Organization: LIF To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:03:09 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.3 (Linux/2.6.34; KDE/4.4.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <201006210913.29074.aballier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3908271.8vp2F0y3VN"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201006211003.09963.aballier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: f7d9a567-048c-4fef-8030-7f1579b9685a X-Archives-Hash: 2092ae0cee6734fd2dfb5e473ff14c1e --nextPart3908271.8vp2F0y3VN Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 21 June 2010 09:53:02 Arun Raghavan wrote: > On 21 June 2010 11:43, Alexis Ballier wrote: > [...] >=20 > >> introspection: Add gobject-introspection support, allowing for the > >> dynamic generation of bindings for various languages > >=20 > > why not naming the useflag gobject-introspection then ? >=20 > Mostly because it seems exceedingly verbose to me (yes, I know we have > longer USE flags, and I find them too long as well). well, it removes any possible ambiguity; it's meaning may be obvious for yo= u=20 but for me, when I see an "introspection" useflag, I wonder why that packag= e=20 would like to do its self psychanalysis... also, remember that having useflag descriptions is only an addition to accu= rate=20 useflag names, not a justification for having vague names A. --nextPart3908271.8vp2F0y3VN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkwfDq0ACgkQvFcC4BYPU0qkkwCeMFevdD5tnyLm7oHklC/Dh64Q UkoAnjjttpkwBSArULiTy1nIQ6FVYNku =dl1Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3908271.8vp2F0y3VN--