Re: [gentoo-dev] rdp vs rdesktop vs freerdp USE flags

[Doug Freed <dwfreed@mtu.edu>]

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 08 Dec 2016 11:29:51 +0100 Pacho Ramos wrote:
>> When looking at freerdp reverse deps I noticed we are using three different
>> names for USE flags enabling freerdp support: rdp, rdesktop and freerdp
>>
>> rdesktop is the only one that is a global USE flag, even if it's used only by
>> two packages, the others are local USE flags that are enabling similar
>> supports.
>>
>> What should we do? Move all to rdesktop?
>
> Move everything to rdp, since this one is most common; add it to
> global flags and remove rdesktop from the list.

+1; RDP is the protocol, whereas freerdp/rdesktop is the
implementation.  This allows one to later replace the dependency with
an any-of or virtual, without needing to change the useflag.

-Doug
dwfreed