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 1OR8xG-0001tC-TA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:16:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3CB36E0943; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:16:14 +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 52DBEE08F7 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:16:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws2 with SMTP id 2so328209vws.40 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:16:11 -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:content-transfer-encoding; bh=a+8b7DipBn3bRv38s3C+oVnlD/zMdj/CY1EWNZ61GtM=; b=aB2ku9iXTEE3I1mX78gMeDBVMnGHe/2vm/VN01cWB6omYBYeEiBNSTc4SIztyIKF4N sk58W0OGFspzjyeC+A0vPh5UeWur7m5zqiQAol+FPK8UNy6rs8J1x10SiwXUE8KdNHmC 4ObJ2/eXKVSwCys+sMU3ETHJ/xhB/ez+xlgEs= 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 :content-transfer-encoding; b=ZoTibCmvpxSyreIfpEaRcblvjm2QdOut07aYFBT7kso4tDxYMUrPnwTbEr/+6x8f3H nRMlYJdqvrTkGeJ+IPa0P+3vPSe520qPg391gBxZAjQSlmkDayWDbcV0RQqmhb4WS+oC vm0MYc/+ad/7AP9a48sCW7EsHUScwgJ/etyog= Received: by 10.220.124.18 with SMTP id s18mr3380470vcr.149.1277228622891; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:43:42 -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 10:11:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C20E5DD.7020400@gentoo.org> References: <201006210933.57444.reavertm@gmail.com> <1277130128.7004.43.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> <201006211744.38483.reavertm@gmail.com> <1277205855.29893.1.camel@lillen> <4C20E5DD.7020400@gentoo.org> From: Arun Raghavan Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:41:25 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 0UC8YhcoZ7bqC5ryxVVULw-XRdc 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 40db4ad6-f061-41b8-ad30-33469d29eb88 X-Archives-Hash: a4a042a9c27f7320234fde851cc6c0c2 On 22 June 2010 22:03, Mike Auty wrote: [...] >> 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. > > Gintrospection gives more information (things starting with g are > generally gnome related, which this is), and grepping for introspection It is not a GNOME-only flag. It affects several non-GNOME-only packages as well (udev, upower, udisks, dbus, gstreamer, other freedesktop projects, pulseaudio). > will still turn it up. =A0It also solves the concerns that all the people > on this thread have voiced about introspection being too generic. =A0I Which should not be an issue since any library that has some sort of introspection can use this flag (and the use.desc can be changed appropriately at that time if it does not use gobject-introspection). --=20 Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)