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From: Peter Hjalmarsson <xake@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:25:19
Message-Id: 1277205855.29893.1.camel@lillen
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection by Arun Raghavan
1 tis 2010-06-22 klockan 15:17 +0530 skrev Arun Raghavan:
2 > On 21 June 2010 21:23, Arun Raghavan <ford_prefect@g.o> wrote:
3 > [...]
4 > > I'm still trying to think of a good name. I understand the concerns
5 > > about "introspection" being too generic and non GNOME-y, but "gir" is
6 > > likely to cause confusion.
7 >
8 > "gir" is not good because it gives near-zero information.
9 >
10 > I can still not think of short enough USE flag. I propose we stick to
11 > "introspection". There isn't anything on the horizon that might
12 > overlap with this flag, and I don't see why we should drop using a
13 > simpler flag for the *possibility* that it might overlap with
14 > something else in the future. We can deal with this if it happens.
15 >
16 > Cheers,
17
18 Why not just gintrospection?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection Arun Raghavan <ford_prefect@g.o>