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 1PznTT-0003bF-LL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:57:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 936AEE0540; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:56:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vx0-f181.google.com (mail-vx0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0843E0486 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:56:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxb39 with SMTP id 39so1816036vxb.40 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:56:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=rDqTLtA+w+jvZiKdVfsuDZlJs6d2x6l1uO8HsgqR8sE=; b=Kq9KKD0I0xHYMi2ctXyxWeHyS2G9j3sk8q+I5ZXAFWZJcVinPICpF7pO3CfzNrj/rF hN/v85fOCozrRuODeLkZ9RWVJqkiq1MKHZ8mh13/LiyelvaYoAAccOLcnrxuKj51ox0O A83MoqOUe+1CzVI+lEp7mOoTPEe9QzBu+gweA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; b=GUtJjxxj5vnxkS4wM5CoK13oQU8V+LTTV8nWJf3McjUUCW5EzSis/6eEVJc130Pi2x fXVvIwcCFF2hluvSErWtrR/av09faEh3bAGwtxnQ7gn0ZQpLoguxWK1hgPbufLLTadsu rOb5F+hIjdIX8Duxqh6HW3x9ugdHKlt1TlR8g= Received: by 10.52.95.108 with SMTP id dj12mr677382vdb.39.1300269387339; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:56:27 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: arunissatan@gmail.com Received: by 10.220.201.73 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:56:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Arun Raghavan Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:26:07 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: rSkrgogylxA__kXRvoWw-4pQdpE Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make libevent a global use flag? To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 99e6e5f9b3222e031d1d5fed38736035 On 16 March 2011 15:00, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > Local use flags so far: > > dev-db/mariadb:libevent - Use libevent for connection handling > net-dns/unbound:libevent - Use dev-libs/libevent instead of internal > select based events > net-im/bitlbee:libevent - Use libevent for event handling > x11-misc/bmpanel:libevent - Use the libevent event loop interface > net-im/prosody:libevent - Use libevent for event handling As before with libcanberra, I don't think it makes sense to have basic libraries like this as USE-flags. AFAICT, this should just become a hard-dep in most cases, and where there's a compelling reason for the ebuild to provide an alternative (or internal) event system, have this as a default-enabled USE-flag. Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)