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From: Alexander Berntsen <alexander@plaimi.net>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:48:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <514AF38E.60600@plaimi.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20810.57629.196394.526922@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>

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On 21/03/13 11:29, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> Should we make it a global flag?
Sure.

> What description is better:
> 
> inotify - Enable inotify filesystem monitoring support inotify - 
> Enable inotify file change notification support
> 
> 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 local description should tell you what that
particular ebuild uses the flag for.

- -- 
Alexander
alexander@plaimi.net
http://plaimi.net/~alexander
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-21 11:48 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 [this message]
2013-03-21 14:14   ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-03-21 16:14     ` Alexander Berntsen

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