From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ds3W3-000231-Lc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:00:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6BIwHBv000356; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:58:17 GMT Received: from smtp.andrew.cmu.edu (smtp.andrew.cmu.edu [128.2.10.83]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6BIu9r7025012 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:56:10 GMT Received: from jbms.wv.cc.cmu.edu (JBMS.WV.CC.cmu.edu [128.237.234.7]) by smtp.andrew.cmu.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id j6BIuqGf001055 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:56:52 -0400 Received: by jbms.wv.cc.cmu.edu (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:56:56 -0400 From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Notice: Changing mozilla useflag to browserplugin for all Java runtimes References: <42D2705F.3080501@gentoo.org> X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:56:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <42D2705F.3080501@gentoo.org> (Karl Trygve Kalleberg's message of "Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:13:03 +0200") Message-ID: <87eka5cgsn.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Archives-Salt: 5bb4dd34-fa80-4eb6-bcc4-bec79b545477 X-Archives-Hash: e59c01b4ea798df19379ea54844b3fe0 One issue I see with a `browserplugin' USE flag is that there may at some point be web browsers in the tree that support plugins that are not Mozilla-compatible. Although there are multiple Mozilla-compatible browsers (mainly browsers which use Mozilla code or have Mozilla embedded), the plugins in question are nonetheless essentially ``Mozilla'' plugins. Thus it is probably better for the USE flag to be called `mozillaplugin', to allow for the future introduction of other browser-specific plugin USE flags. (It would be undesirable for ebuilds supporting multiple types of web browser plugins to, if the single `browserplugin' USE flag is enabled, install plugins for all of the supported browsers that portage says are installed.) -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list