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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Invitation for discussion
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:46:42
Message-Id: 200407261846.37890.vapier@gentoo.org
1 On Monday 26 July 2004 12:50 pm, Mamoru KOMACHI wrote:
2 > I don't think so. Having a library doesn't mean you want to enable
3 > support for the library. For example, you might have both GTK+2 and
4 > GTK+1 (for whatever dependency) and don't want to enable GTK+1.
5 > Another example is ncurses USE flag. ncurses is in system profile
6 > so all Gentoo systems have ncurses, but you may or may not want
7 > enable ncurses support for your system.
8
9 although i agree with you on the point you're trying to make, your example
10 with GTK USE flags is wrong
11
12 gtk == enable GTK support
13 gtk2 == use GTK2 instead of GTK1 when possible
14
15 gtk != use GTK1
16 -mike
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Invitation for discussion Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>