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From: Heinrich Wendel <lanius@g.o>
To: Peter Johanson <latexer@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Global Useflag: wlan
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:05:38
Message-Id: 200403251505.29524.lanius@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Global Useflag: wlan by Peter Johanson
1 Am Wednesday 24 March 2004 15:26 schrieb Peter Johanson:
2 > On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:11:06PM +0100, Heinrich Wendel wrote:
3 > > Hi,
4 > >
5 > > There has already been some discussion about a new wireless use flag
6 > > (especially for kdenetwork). Some peopled complained that wireless (or
7 > > wifi) also includes bluetooth and ppl may have wlan, but not bluetooth.
8 > > So I propose to call the new useflag wlan. If there is a need for an
9 > > additionally bluetooth useflag, it can be added later. If there are no
10 > > complaints, i'll add it on friday.
11 >
12 > Can we see a detailed list of which packages would benefit from this? I
13 > don't recall if that was posted before or not. I can't personally think
14 > of enough packages currently to warrant a new global USE flag for this,
15 > but our tree is certainly big enough for me to have missed a lot. (:
16
17 I thought there were more packages mentioned in the two threads before, but i
18 couldn't find any ;) Still I think it should be made global since it is an
19 important features and maybe some packages start to adopt it once it is
20 created.
21
22 >
23 > -pete
24 mfg, heinrich :)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] New Global Useflag: wlan Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>