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 1OR4YB-00025s-AE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:34:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 050A2E0AC7; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:34:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 966A7E09FD for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:33:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwj18 with SMTP id 18so1701619gwj.40 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:33:43 -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=82I+jrFcKaErWEMJApa6DWbudI8AI1yF8jdtI94htGY=; b=HstQrnH+yPUq9Ag2rHX6Ttq6FY2Ei/ZipWNPubgqYwChxQFPBN4LQrW4yAWC+/34y8 xD6zq4BzWfR1DOReez/fWS0duzkiEZ9ZAXQGaTURXy2a3JL4CSza6HJU5voCiWkXi+8y Z2NXgeV5/g3DmBJJVCWfiuEEYG+Oy+Mll18b4= 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=O3eLV0QPIuyvUTPtPw1VQ0ZyB4nrlFBGGO5Aqdjzjvk0b6T7WPA/6mnvnfzfD3jG6r smZwuOeiFMc/jVjUsZJOwllP3tYtlFr77Z2p+ajZLGmalHggJPEsTBEi+jHcGs8eJmbU QpO0oTy2b6ESznqM/T9NfUHMp5A80b8ATsFZY= Received: by 10.229.192.10 with SMTP id do10mr3400781qcb.84.1277217222730; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:33:42 -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 10.220.203.70 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:33:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1277205855.29893.1.camel@lillen> References: <201006210933.57444.reavertm@gmail.com> <1277130128.7004.43.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> <201006211744.38483.reavertm@gmail.com> <1277205855.29893.1.camel@lillen> From: Arun Raghavan Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:03:22 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: IdUebU9PEiZFaBtISMEvr3S5P4U 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: e1c5d04e-bc13-43fa-a37c-92d9649c7d3f X-Archives-Hash: fde98b350f1d58d656089d79b936a50d On 22 June 2010 16:54, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote: > tis 2010-06-22 klockan 15:17 +0530 skrev Arun Raghavan: >> On 21 June 2010 21:23, Arun Raghavan wrote: >> [...] >> > I'm still trying to think of a good name. I understand the concerns >> > about "introspection" being too generic and non GNOME-y, but "gir" is >> > likely to cause confusion. >> >> "gir" is not good because it gives near-zero information. >> >> I can still not think of short enough USE flag. I propose we stick to >> "introspection". There isn't anything on the horizon that might >> overlap with this flag, and I don't see why we should drop using a >> simpler flag for the *possibility* that it might overlap with >> something else in the future. We can deal with this if it happens. >> >> Cheers, > > Why not just gintrospection? I still think "introspection" is easier to grok. It's unlikely that it's going to be used in a completely different sense by other packages in the future, so let's stick with "introspection" please. -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)