[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] global useflags

Peter Volkov <pva@g.o> writes:

> Seems that this arose from media-libs/libdvdcss... Can we rename this to
> dvdcss to make it clear that this have something to do with dvds and not
> with web technologies?

I'd actually agree on this, while css is currently just used for Content
Scramble System, I don't think we're going to have that mainstream
anytime soon. This CSS is tied to the DVD technology that people are
trying to replace (also because of the CSS debacle); the Cascading Style
Sheet is, well, not going to disappear anytime soon, in my opinion.

While changing an USE flag on the run is not a nice thing for users, I
think that disambiguating this is a good idea. _While_ users are
supposed to look up USE flags, it's no use to call, for instance, "tar"
the support for Tape Audio Recording, just because there was no "tar"
USE flag before ;)

So +1 from me for css -> dvdcss renaming.

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