From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:02:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <514AF6E7.9090703@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130321114356.6340.qmail@stuge.se>
On 21/03/13 13:43, Peter Stuge wrote:
> 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
>
> The former is more correct, because inotify provides notifications
> for more than just file changes.
>
>
> Samuli Suominen wrote:
>> it should always be enabled with 'kernel_linux' and let the
>> application itself do a runtime check if inotify is available or not
>
> I think it's great if you are working on such patches for upstreams!
no, i'm talking from experience -- every package I've seen/touched/...
with IUSE="inotify" has had code that made it safe to use also for
non-inotify'd kernels
i'm referring to the mistakes done by maintainers by adding
unnecessarily the flag
cut the sarcasm :-)
- Samuli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-21 12:03 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 [this message]
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
2013-03-21 16:14 ` Alexander Berntsen
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