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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make "sound" a global USE flag?
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:49:45
Message-Id: 4D504C93.6060704@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make "sound" a global USE flag? by Samuli Suominen
1 On 02/07/2011 08:08 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
2 > On 02/07/2011 07:55 PM, Petteri Räty wrote:
3 >> On 02/07/2011 03:15 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
4 >>
5 >>>
6 >>>
7 >>> +1 with exception that those using USE=sound for libcanberra should be
8 >>> split into it's own USE flag called USE=libcanberra
9 >>> and USE=sound should be kept for the generic ones
10 >>>
11 >>
12 >> libcanberra describes the means and not the results so we should try to
13 >> come up with something else.
14 >>
15 >> Regards,
16 >> Petteri
17 >>
18 >
19 > The "means" are commonly used as USE flag names with "result" in USE
20 > flag description. Think of "gstreamer", or "xine" for example.
21 >
22 > But I'm open to suggestions...
23 >
24
25 How about event-sounds?
26
27 "libcanberra is an implementation of the XDG Sound Theme and Name
28 Specifications, for generating event sounds on free desktops, such as
29 GNOME."
30
31 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/#overview
32
33 Regards,
34 Petteri

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Make "sound" a global USE flag? Arun Raghavan <ford_prefect@g.o>