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 1OQjMT-0000AV-9L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:56:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9ADAEE0CB7; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:54:09 +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 CCE64E0C4B for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:53:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws2 with SMTP id 2so312916vws.40 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:53:48 -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=2aL5h5EWGf8qFJ06Y5sWC+yUZ7pTQOhGZyfsILDO040=; b=Wt7o8LVNH+TtJHSSJ7LIDKAKKKTCL0xQTjQuy4p9fPnQHXnGs8/wigGy6B3ohhmxhp BaxaRvdcD/jwfSY1RKb/Go5eSG6f62M0pag99sVOP/BamXIhWWvR53el50HEimPB8zcq U/Fo41PrdwvsJmzbKL4yt8IrQS5Wsp3AMbsnA= 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=C3c6Az08oQUKW5o7cvkmQsUfbTEsP449PGKIjIjR0xZMMBDXdVrxRm5g+tYFibJWFo plDMMSCmEi9bZ9xZi9dk9/mB5tRgf+F8bFwE3z88Kssuctc89k3zdpbitjDqgAEmS5kZ Tgoum579/YEjQvYBqpeNPpfh0lslPB7u9IoKc= Received: by 10.220.89.166 with SMTP id e38mr2156241vcm.247.1277135628284; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:53:48 -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; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:53:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201006211744.38483.reavertm@gmail.com> References: <201006210933.57444.reavertm@gmail.com> <1277130128.7004.43.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> <201006211744.38483.reavertm@gmail.com> From: Arun Raghavan Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:23:28 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: sB00OYUC8XPkvxsuJh6UJiAd-lA Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 6af82ed3-8cee-4cf4-af44-be93e3f6bb8a X-Archives-Hash: 025bac510977971f6ca5d2a9b2954fef On 21 June 2010 21:14, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: [...] > If that's the case (they are essential for Gnome or whatever to work, just two > files per package, not bringing any additional dependencies nor probability of > causing compilation failures), I find it rather odd to make it optional at > all. As I explained, the reason I think it makes sense to make it optional is for embedded systems, where you want to enable introspection for only the subset of your package where you need the dynamically generated bindings. I agree that this is a tenuous argument in itself, but I figure that now that we've started this way, and there /is/ a benefit to it, we might as well carry it through. 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. -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)