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From: Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rdp vs rdesktop vs freerdp USE flags
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 10:52:16
Message-Id: e6a06e68-6206-0f80-ac6e-77abc30c3908@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rdp vs rdesktop vs freerdp USE flags by Doug Freed
1 On 12/08/2016 06:10 AM, Doug Freed wrote:
2 > On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> On Thu, 08 Dec 2016 11:29:51 +0100 Pacho Ramos wrote:
6 >>> When looking at freerdp reverse deps I noticed we are using three different
7 >>> names for USE flags enabling freerdp support: rdp, rdesktop and freerdp
8 >>>
9 >>> rdesktop is the only one that is a global USE flag, even if it's used only by
10 >>> two packages, the others are local USE flags that are enabling similar
11 >>> supports.
12 >>>
13 >>> What should we do? Move all to rdesktop?
14 >>
15 >> Move everything to rdp, since this one is most common; add it to
16 >> global flags and remove rdesktop from the list.
17 >
18 > +1; RDP is the protocol, whereas freerdp/rdesktop is the
19 > implementation. This allows one to later replace the dependency with
20 > an any-of or virtual, without needing to change the useflag.
21 >
22 > -Doug
23 > dwfreed
24 >
25 +1 here.
26
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