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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:50:24
Message-Id: pan.2010.06.21.14.49.47@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection by "Olivier Crête"
1 Olivier Crête posted on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:46:58 -0400 as excerpted:
2
3 > It's not the bindings... It's introspection data that describes the API.
4
5 Well, the bindings themselves are dynamic, but this is what enables them,
6 according to the description. Only explaining all that is a bit long to
7 stick in the flag itself, so leave it in the description. Which, assuming
8 it's correct, would make the name accurate as well, as bindings are what
9 the flag is /for/, even if bindings are not actually what's /directly/
10 controlled by it.
11
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14 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
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