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On Sunday 20 of June 2010 16:42:58 Arun Raghavan wrote: |
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> Hi folks, |
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> I'd like to propose a new global USE-flag: introspection. |
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> The purpose of the flag is to enable the building of GIR for the |
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> package using dev-libs/gobject-introspection. gobject-introspection is |
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> going to be quite important in upcoming GNOME releases, allowing for |
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> the automated generation of bindings for several languages. |
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> We already have 13 packages using this flag, with several more to |
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> come. The current description being used in packages' metadata.xml |
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> sucks - I'll put something more descriptive in the final flag. |
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> |
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> Any objections? I'll wait till Wed (June 23rd) before adding this if |
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> there aren't any. |
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I don't mind adding it as globally recognizable USE flag, I'd mind however |
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having it enabled by default in desktop/base profile. If Gnome needs it, |
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please enable it in gnome subprofile if you wish (apart from setting all |
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required USE deps in ebuilds), you can also use IUSE defaults for it which |
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would allow more fine grained control or if you or Gnome devs decided to drop |
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the idea at some point. |
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regards |
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MM |