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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
To: "Olivier Crête" <tester@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, gnome@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:34:15
Message-Id: AANLkTimuU46F_xbvdvFdxUbMth-9ci4muHyT5sDtb1RS@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection by "Olivier Crête"
1 2010/6/21 Olivier Crête <tester@g.o>:
2 > On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 20:12 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:
3 >> I'd like to propose a new global USE-flag: introspection.
4 > ...
5 >> Any objections? I'll wait till Wed (June 23rd) before adding this if
6 >> there aren't any.
7 >
8 > Do we really want it to be a USE flag ? I would force it on always for
9 > everyone. Due to the direction in which GNOME is heading, it will be
10 > required by the core desktop anyway.
11 >
12
13 On the other hand, it's not just GNOME-3 which uses gtk+, atk, pango,
14 etc. A lot of the libraries that we package are going to be used
15 outside GNOME, and I really don't see why we should force this stuff
16 onto them when we don't absolutely have to.
17
18 --
19 ~Nirbheek Chauhan
20
21 Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team