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 1OQat0-0006xn-KT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:53:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5305CE0853; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:53:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A95C0E07E1 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:53:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws8 with SMTP id 8so1114421vws.40 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:53:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id :subject:to:content-type; bh=vlxW+SKml9kjuF9NaKnx62qUrtsCZdp+AGYCGKvMvEY=; b=h9hRD4/b+95Hv01Knd0qGymB1ZG6ehoxaykD95qjU64CKFTA5hJ4Qaz9MFCLUEn1Ui EgAj2izE1j6MDI9zRWwWx8MfAdGYRVrnvpFjhXkL4epIvuH1iYNjBj+CKquYzuT5+P0J dsrAfN1cP1tQom61I0syXy6grYXrTWfnh0Xo8= 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=jbTwL95aWgdmsJJ0EEH6wOyhZEYrtbOi1GPgURKFFF0cKyax6WvybOx+qPfh4ct2BG gujscmviDEJ8XA43g7qOB/M7RmXRo8HbugqsRKo5p8kquNryxAyDpb6n1Io1x7uQmEtN PNHl1wPOV4HEgDoM2VAgZ11lqpQ7inkJmSPmA= Received: by 10.220.89.135 with SMTP id e7mr1852880vcm.53.1277103202232; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:53:22 -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 10.220.200.141 with HTTP; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:53:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201006210913.29074.aballier@gentoo.org> References: <201006210913.29074.aballier@gentoo.org> From: Arun Raghavan Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:23:02 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: xtLC2qZBxjjgeAYIPBz44Kb76ds Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: a45c4b7d-b800-4c6a-954b-8bfff07db38e X-Archives-Hash: 1f7b44841f7e356d5e6d3e772c503b17 On 21 June 2010 11:43, Alexis Ballier wrote: [...] >> introspection: Add gobject-introspection support, allowing for the >> dynamic generation of bindings for various languages > > why not naming the useflag gobject-introspection then ? Mostly because it seems exceedingly verbose to me (yes, I know we have longer USE flags, and I find them too long as well). -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)