From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 167B51382F6 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2016 15:33:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 70BC81412D; Wed, 6 Jul 2016 15:32:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost03b.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost03b.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.21]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B3BEE0B36 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2016 15:32:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=peak.localnet) by smarthost03b.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1bKoor-0007Z5-Ak for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2016 15:32:57 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate USE flags Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 16:32:56 +0100 Message-ID: <1686515.FNECagL81j@peak> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.6.3-gentoo; KDE/4.14.21; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <1645780.3TDsiAQxU5@peak> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost03b-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: 1275efa2-51c7-46b3-860e-0d770bf3691c X-Archives-Hash: b1cf2917a3b49455b3e582b3e59a77b3 On Wednesday 06 Jul 2016 10:31:26 Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 5:10 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Can anyone tell me why we have two USE flags for the same thing? Geoloc > > and > > geolocation both switch on geolocation but in different packages. > > > > This duplication caused me much head-scratching and needless extra work in > > trying to install a plasma system without NetworkManager. > > Two different developers working on separate packages came up with > similar looking USE flags. The GNOME team went with geoloc, while the > KDE team went with geolocation. I think they're more than similar looking: they're functionally identical. > Contact the relevant developers or file a bug if you think they should > be consolidated. Done: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588168 -- Rgds Peter