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From: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: pr@g.o, gnome <gnome@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] libgphoto2-2.4.10 news item
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:25:14
Message-Id: 1297679073.16086.3.camel@gdartigu.lan.rep.sj
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] libgphoto2-2.4.10 news item by Pacho Ramos
1 Le lundi 14 février 2011 à 11:15 +0100, Pacho Ramos a écrit :
2 > El dom, 13-02-2011 a las 18:03 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
3 > > Hello
4 > >
5 > > Please see attached news item for reviewing as part of the fix for
6 > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346491
7 > >
8 > > Thanks
9 > >
10 >
11 > This is an updated news item for trying to cover Ciaran and Matthew
12 > suggestions:
13 > 1. It doesn't ask people to use USE="*"
14 > 2. Before sending this, I would add all cameras to base/make.defaults as
15 > already done for similar cases (like alsa, lcd devices and others)
16 >
17 > Do you agree with this?
18 >
19 > Thanks :-)
20
21 no, adding all cameras is most likely a waste of time for maintainers,
22 it is prone to errors when cameras get added/removed which is already
23 complicated enough to maintain.
24
25 If someone really wants a non-null default, I suggest enabling the ptp2
26 camera driver (PTP support) which is available for most cameras out
27 there.
28
29 --
30 Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
31 Gentoo

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