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On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 06 of May 2011 15:18:20 Marijn wrote:
>> And what happened to the proposed description:
>>
>> introspection: Add gobject-introspection support, allowing for the
>> dynamic generation of bindings for various languages
>
> No.
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg40069.html
>
It's things like this that convinced us that there's no real advantage
in having it as a global use-flag. Maybe 3 years later when there is
*still* nothing else in the tree that uses "introspection" besides
gobject-introspection, we'll revisit this and finally make it a global
use-flag.
--
~Nirbheek Chauhan
Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team