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 1OQb3V-0000u7-Tr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:04:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FF95E0956; 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 7BEBEE0933 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:04:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.109] (fi122.internetdsl.tpnet.pl [80.53.34.122]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 169461B4038 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:04:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4C1F0EE3.5010208@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:04:03 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?IlBhd2XFgiBIYWpkYW4sIEpyLiI=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection References: <201006210913.29074.aballier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigBF7984965216E68DBA34C095" X-Archives-Salt: 74c5cf7f-e8ee-4ee8-a864-ea14ba0a8997 X-Archives-Hash: e60f8c01c1b0f3c129ce84e1618f812f This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigBF7984965216E68DBA34C095 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 6/21/10 8:53 AM, 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). Please take a look at the devmanual, http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/ > In particular, note that if client and server USE flags are ever > introduced, they can not be global USE flags for this reason. I think that "introspection" is similarly too general. So can we either rename it to "gobject-introspection", or find some other way to handle it? On the other hand, we already have "handbook" flag for KDE4. So the above is not really a strong opinion, just a point to consider. Pawe=C5=82 --------------enigBF7984965216E68DBA34C095 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkwfDukACgkQuUQtlDBCeQJvMwCfasRZx/BvMHP+JBpMt1tz7hBf qakAmwRfZ5TlHGlvINc6qRVeXEjHX+iW =9NWw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigBF7984965216E68DBA34C095--