[gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flags (network, 3dnowext, static-libs, mtp)

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

Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> posted 4A26D241.60702@gentoo.org,
excerpted below, on  Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:42:57 +0300:

> Mounir Lamouri wrote:
>> Samuli Suominen wrote:
>>> Mart Raudsepp wrote:
>>>   
>>>> On K, 2009-06-03 at 02:13 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>> USE network is used by 9 ebuilds, and one is using USE networking
>>>>> which can be converted, that'd be 10.
>>>>>       
>>> USE network "Enable networking support
>> Maybe "network" and "net" could be merged ?
>> 
>> Mounir
>> 
>> 
> Yes. USE="networking" and USE="net" to global USE flag "network". They
> all seem to do the same thing.

In at least one I package I use, media-sound/mpd, USE=network doesn't 
really do what it says on the tin.

Currently, "the tin" says "Enable network streaming support".  However, 
what it does is enable network streaming /server/, with the requisite 
encoding, etc. Network streaming /client/ support is always enabled for 
this package, regardless of the USE=network setting, and indeed, I 
happily listen to incoming shoutcast streams all the time despite USE=-
network for this package.

This was a relatively new flag for this package, added in the fresh ~arch 
version, and it certainly caused me some initial confusion, until I 
actually examined the ebuild itself to see what it did.

Perhaps a more accurate flag for media-sound/mpd would therefore be 
USE=server (which BTW has all sorts of local entries, but AFAIK, has been 
disapproved as a global USE flag before).

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