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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: ssuominen@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:32:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130321173250.62133715@pomiocik> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514AE1BF.3030605@gentoo.org>

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On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:32:31 +0200
Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 21/03/13 12:29, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > These packages have inotify as local USE flag:
> >
> >     app-editors/emacs-vcs
> >     app-misc/recoll
> >     app-misc/strigi
> >     dev-libs/ecore
> >     dev-vcs/git-annex
> >     media-sound/mpd
> >     net-im/ekg2
> >     net-misc/mediatomb
> >     sys-fs/aufs2
> >     sys-fs/aufs3
> >     sys-process/cronie
> >
> > Should we make it a global flag? What description is better:
> >
> >     inotify - Enable inotify filesystem monitoring support
> >     inotify - Enable inotify file change notification support
> 
> +1, ...
> 
> ... despite that most of these shouldn't even have a USE flag for 
> inotify, instead it should always be enabled with 'kernel_linux' and let 
> the application itself do a runtime check if inotify is available or not
> since these have no external dependencies (other than virtual/os-headers)
> not everything should be put behind USE flag :-/

net-im/ekg2 fixed. But you should seriously consider opening a bug, at
least a common one CC-ing all the remaining maintainers.


-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-21 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-21 10:29 [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag? Ulrich Mueller
2013-03-21 10:32 ` Samuli Suominen
2013-03-21 11:43   ` Peter Stuge
2013-03-21 12:02     ` Samuli Suominen
2013-03-21 12:10       ` Peter Stuge
2013-03-21 12:19         ` Sergey Popov
2013-03-21 12:26         ` Samuli Suominen
2013-03-21 13:33           ` Peter Stuge
2013-03-21 14:30             ` Tom Wijsman
2013-03-21 16:32   ` Michał Górny [this message]
2013-03-21 11:48 ` Alexander Berntsen
2013-03-21 14:14   ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-03-21 16:14     ` Alexander Berntsen

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