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From: Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag called "qrcode" for QR code support
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 10:26:38
Message-Id: 20140206102630.8813.qmail@stuge.se
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag called "qrcode" for QR code support by Samuli Suominen
1 Samuli Suominen wrote:
2 > New global USE flag 'qrcode' for the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code
3 > (sorry, page didn't load for me so I hope it's okay)
4 > I propose 'Enable support for 2D QR Codes' ?
5 ..
6 > And app-office/glabels has USE="barcode" but it also pulls in
7 > app-text/barcode, so likely it can do normal barcodes too, not
8 > just QR codes, so it can propably stay as-is.
9
10 This is a little bit hairy..
11
12 How will qrcode relate to barcode? Since they are intimately related
13 in practice I (as a user) would expect such global USE flags to also
14 be related.
15
16 One could argue that barcode is a superset of qrcode and thus perhaps
17 having a more specific flag isn't sensible unless there are actually
18 ebuilds/upstreams which allow such fine grain control of what codes
19 are supported?
20
21
22 //Peter

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