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 59CCE1382F6 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2016 16:25:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 144AD141AD; Wed, 6 Jul 2016 16:25:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5B7A14002 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2016 16:25:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=peak.localnet) by smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1bKpdF-0007YT-JU for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2016 16:25:01 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate USE flags Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:25:01 +0100 Message-ID: <2221546.SEjF6Vpivq@peak> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.6.3-gentoo; KDE/4.14.21; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20160706161101.GA29049@waltdnes.org> References: <1645780.3TDsiAQxU5@peak> <20160706161101.GA29049@waltdnes.org> 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-smarthost01a-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: 8a4492b7-b88d-4d7a-901b-6a0f8111e485 X-Archives-Hash: 466b9ae0b21e7ead562c2c3ed592a97a On Wednesday 06 Jul 2016 12:11:02 waltdnes@waltdnes.org wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Mike Gilbert 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. > > Would you believe 4 flags? geolocation/geoip/geoipv2/geoloc > On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 11:05:54AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote > > > Just to add one note, this happens fairly often, and when people > > notice we generally fix it. New USE flags pop up all the time, > > because new ideas in software come up all the time... > > [i3][waltdnes][~] grep ":geoi\|:geol" /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc > > dev-qt/qtwebengine:geolocation - Enable physical position determination via > dev-qt/qtpositioning dev-qt/qtwebkit:geolocation - Enable physical position > determination via dev-qt/qtpositioning > kde-plasma/plasma-workspace:geolocation - Enables dataengine providing > location information media-gfx/kphotoalbum:geolocation - Add support for > kde-apps/marble net-analyzer/bro:geoip - Enable support for Maxmind's GeoIP > library net-analyzer/pmacct:geoipv2 - Add support for GeoIP2 through > dev-libs/libmaxminddb net-im/empathy:geoloc - Enable geolocation support > through app-misc/geoclue net-irc/inspircd:geoip - Add geoip support for > country and city lookup based on IPs net-libs/webkit-gtk:geoloc - Enable > geolocation support through app-misc/geoclue www-apache/mod_security:geoip > - Configure ModSecurity to query the GeoIP database from MaxMind, provided > by dev-libs/geoip. This flag only controls the default configuration, as > the GeoIP query code is part of ModSecurity's source code. > > Maybe they should be consolidated into one global flag, and moved out > of use.local.desc into use.desc. Well, you could always suggest that in the bug report... -- Rgds Peter