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 1OQS9e-0001lk-Uu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:34:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78CCBE0795; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:34:08 +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 E389BE0779 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:33:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwj18 with SMTP id 18so608829gwj.40 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:33:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=n11tbFoD1G3KhdTotz6WotM6GVGSmm51ph6DgmPS6ZU=; b=vaMt4O2crveo1NxTPMNFhPVkzyPZA5wV0sR9zi4ppSx3Fv4ohQOeTqweAiiF+Hf8iP 1mGIS6VEsuL4YAWDLrlZrKdPtWiCS401lZVjPdwUanc7ScJI9YV8MCSQzOXESrterWzL uAefhPTWlf8Aj19IDoYEYs2Dd1D1FsaTcrhTQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=I0i+qVkBhWxYLRjTD/9Br60BA3y77sdBmOFOD29xyqDICUe+h53tnvz3DdLQr+oliV AdrBMLCpp8zLIqYnz4oRZ2EXq18ZNhvZJvbhssW3Eaaqbg0DzZwudLHhDCIKS3aIx7gB PX2rnQplMbCZhwtoQ//KqeFdh+JShzOUA/7cQ= 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 Received: by 10.151.73.20 with SMTP id a20mr3269106ybl.324.1277069614418; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:33:34 -0700 (PDT) Sender: nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.216.20 with HTTP; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:33:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1277064857.7004.1.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> References: <1277064857.7004.1.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:03:34 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: hc-Lit36C4GrtOMnWyIfFj297lI Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection From: Nirbheek Chauhan To: =?UTF-8?Q?Olivier_Cr=C3=AAte?= Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, gnome@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: dfc6442e-1897-4d68-9ed2-371dff58136d X-Archives-Hash: 20e3bc491623a66b9c750716838640d2 2010/6/21 Olivier Cr=C3=AAte : > On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 20:12 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: >> I'd like to propose a new global USE-flag: introspection. > ... >> Any objections? I'll wait till Wed (June 23rd) before adding this if >> there aren't any. > > Do we really want it to be a USE flag ? I would force it on always for > everyone. Due to the direction in which GNOME is heading, it will be > required by the core desktop anyway. > On the other hand, it's not just GNOME-3 which uses gtk+, atk, pango, etc. A lot of the libraries that we package are going to be used outside GNOME, and I really don't see why we should force this stuff onto them when we don't absolutely have to. --=20 ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team