[gentoo-dev] Global useflag for enabling visibility support

[gentoo-dev] Global useflag for enabling visibility support

[Piotr Jaroszyński]

Hello,

I think it's time to add a more general flag for enabling visibility support 
in packages as currently there is only a kde specific one 
(kdehiddenvisibility) and I don't think it makes sense to add a new one for 
each package that needs it.
I have just added a local "visibility" flag for paludis and that's also my 
candidate for the global one, but better names are welcome.

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Best Regards,
Piotr Jaroszyński
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Global useflag for enabling visibility support

[Mart Raudsepp]

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On E, 2007-11-05 at 16:19 +0100, Piotr Jaroszyński wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I think it's time to add a more general flag for enabling visibility support 
> in packages as currently there is only a kde specific one 
> (kdehiddenvisibility) and I don't think it makes sense to add a new one for 
> each package that needs it.

Why do they need it, is the question. If it's supported and stable, it
should just be enabled, end of story, in my opinion. I believe it was
optional in KDE due to it not being stable for some reason (either GCCs
at the time were sketchy or their build system problems weren't smoothed
out, I guess).

> I have just added a local "visibility" flag for paludis and that's also my 
> candidate for the global one, but better names are welcome.

Why not enable it by default and unconditionally (other than GCC version
being used supporting it) in this specific case?

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Mart Raudsepp
Gentoo Developer
Mail: leio@gentoo.org
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Global useflag for enabling visibility support

[Graham Murray]

Piotr Jaroszyński <peper@gentoo.org> writes:

> I think it's time to add a more general flag for enabling visibility support 
> in packages as currently there is only a kde specific one 
> (kdehiddenvisibility) and I don't think it makes sense to add a new one for 
> each package that needs it.

Some packages, such as mozilla-firefox, enable visibility support
without the use of a USE flag.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Global useflag for enabling visibility support

[Mike Frysinger]

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On Monday 05 November 2007, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> On E, 2007-11-05 at 16:19 +0100, Piotr Jaroszyński wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I think it's time to add a more general flag for enabling visibility
> > support in packages as currently there is only a kde specific one
> > (kdehiddenvisibility) and I don't think it makes sense to add a new one
> > for each package that needs it.
>
> Why do they need it, is the question. If it's supported and stable, it
> should just be enabled, end of story, in my opinion. I believe it was
> optional in KDE due to it not being stable for some reason (either GCCs
> at the time were sketchy or their build system problems weren't smoothed
> out, I guess).
>
> > I have just added a local "visibility" flag for paludis and that's also
> > my candidate for the global one, but better names are welcome.
>
> Why not enable it by default and unconditionally (other than GCC version
> being used supporting it) in this specific case?

this sounds good to me too ... binding USE flags to compiler options is 
generally frowned upon and we should avoid it when possible.
-mike

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