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From: Arun Raghavan <ford_prefect@g.o>
To: "Olivier Crête" <tester@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, gnome@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:44:21
Message-Id: AANLkTim8DPwexc8kSkeoZfHMfIx1AwOBc_6SUoEi1_0c@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection by "Olivier Crête"
1 2010/6/21 Olivier Crête <tester@g.o>:
2 > On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 20:12 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:
3 >> I'd like to propose a new global USE-flag: introspection.
4 > ...
5 >> Any objections? I'll wait till Wed (June 23rd) before adding this if
6 >> there aren't any.
7 >
8 > Do we really want it to be a USE flag ? I would force it on always for
9 > everyone. Due to the direction in which GNOME is heading, it will be
10 > required by the core desktop anyway.
11
12 In addition to what Nirbheek pointed out, I think a USE flag would be
13 useful for embedded setups where you might only want introspection for
14 a subset of libraries.
15
16 I do agree with you about it being part of the core desktop and
17 required by most users, so it will be enabled by default for all
18 ebuilds.
19
20 Cheers,
21 --
22 Arun Raghavan
23 http://arunraghavan.net/
24 (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection "Michał Górny" <gentoo@××××××××××.pl>