From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JPnEQ-0006uJ-F1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:11:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 872C7E053D; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:11:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61DCCE053D for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:11:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE7B2658AE for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:11:03 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.421 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.421 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.178, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id HA-Ipx9FWGXa for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:10:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD18764870 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:10:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JPnE1-00033u-Rv for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:10:41 +0000 Received: from adsl-ull-98-17.48-151.net24.it ([151.48.17.98]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:10:41 +0000 Received: from flameeyes by adsl-ull-98-17.48-151.net24.it with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:10:41 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: flameeyes@gmail.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?Q?Petten=C3=B2?=) Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] global useflags Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:10:32 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20080213210132.720760ba@gentoo.org> <1202983599.5803.4.camel@localhost> <200802142311.39442.philantrop@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-ull-98-17.48-151.net24.it User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vZo+j4EvM28I7CT9+H0S1IdyMRQ= Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: b042fa1d-b1b1-4b0f-b830-77e11e6a9ca4 X-Archives-Hash: 611c09d6c9b49c73014d02605ba81986 "Wulf C. Krueger" writes: > Where is the pressing need to do that? Again, which current package wou= ld=20 > use a re-defined "css" USE flag? No package would use it, and there is no _pressing_ need. I still think it's nicer to let the user understand. What if we had qt referring to quicktime, and no qt package just yet? Would it be okay for you not to be able to understand without looking up the flag if qt referred to QuickTime or TrollTech's Qt? (being all downcase helps not here, capitalisation would have helped distinguish between the two). > I don't think any user will expect media-video/undvd, app-cdr/k3b or=20 > media-video/cinelerra-cvs to support cascading style sheets but rather=20 > the other CSS stuff. :-) This assumes that users know that there are _two_ CSS technologies. Which I sincerely doubt. Note that even Wikipedia defaults CSS to Cascading Style Sheet. While it can't say anything aboug Gentoo users, it says a lot on how that particular acronym is perceived among the general public. And I see no compelling reason to stick with a bad choice just for the sake of not renaming an USE flag, when the alternative is to actually give back sanity to the flag naming. --=20 Diego "Flameeyes" Petten=C3=B2 http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ --=20 gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list