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From: Doug Freed <dwfreed@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rdp vs rdesktop vs freerdp USE flags
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 14:11:51
Message-Id: CAFyXEp+qbnbjPyX79ULmh=xssT1xiOMVHeBz_-MGCg5qToqJQA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rdp vs rdesktop vs freerdp USE flags by Andrew Savchenko
1 On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > On Thu, 08 Dec 2016 11:29:51 +0100 Pacho Ramos wrote:
5 >> When looking at freerdp reverse deps I noticed we are using three different
6 >> names for USE flags enabling freerdp support: rdp, rdesktop and freerdp
7 >>
8 >> rdesktop is the only one that is a global USE flag, even if it's used only by
9 >> two packages, the others are local USE flags that are enabling similar
10 >> supports.
11 >>
12 >> What should we do? Move all to rdesktop?
13 >
14 > Move everything to rdp, since this one is most common; add it to
15 > global flags and remove rdesktop from the list.
16
17 +1; RDP is the protocol, whereas freerdp/rdesktop is the
18 implementation. This allows one to later replace the dependency with
19 an any-of or virtual, without needing to change the useflag.
20
21 -Doug
22 dwfreed

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] rdp vs rdesktop vs freerdp USE flags Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] rdp vs rdesktop vs freerdp USE flags Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>