[gentoo-dev] Re: new global use flag and a new category

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Spider posted <20040829214235.5115ef57.spider@gentoo.org>, excerpted
below,  on Sun, 29 Aug 2004 21:42:35 +0200:

> begin  quote
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:56:56 +0200
> Carsten Lohrke <carlo@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>> The kde herd wants to give everyone the possibility to configure with
>> --enable-final via the "final" use flag. Additionally I thought about a 
>> kde-misc category, which would include a bunch of kde related packages,
>> which  are now mainly placed in app-misc, x11-misc, some in other
>> categories and a  few are still in bugs.g.o.
> 
>>  Any objections?
>> 
>> 
> I'd object to the use of the word "final" for this, since its ambigous and
> hard to comprehend its meaning.  I'd suggest finding a better word to
> describe the flag and its function.

The trouble is that's the upstream choice.  From kdebase 3.3.0's
./configure --help:

 --enable-final  build size optimized apps (experimental [...])
    
Isn't one of the Gentoo policies to let upstream policy guide where
possible in such instances?  Anyone that has worked on KDE sources should
instantly grok what such a use flag is about.  If Gentoo calls it
something else, it will IMO make things /less/ clear.

Well, I guess the /one/ simpler possibility would be to call the flag
"enable-final", instead of simply "final", making it even clearer, but I'd
expect that wouldn't address your concern.

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