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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:14:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20811.5561.731803.953862@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514AF38E.60600@plaimi.net>

>>>>> On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Alexander Berntsen wrote:

>> BTW, half of the local flag descriptions are "Enable inotify 
>> support". Imagine that! ;-)

> Why not just make it "Enable inotify support", and write more
> detailed local flags?

The point is that this so-called description adds no useful
information whatsoever. Most of the time USE="foo" will enable some
"foo" feature.

Ulrich


  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-21 14:14 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
2013-03-21 11:48 ` Alexander Berntsen
2013-03-21 14:14   ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2013-03-21 16:14     ` Alexander Berntsen

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