Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: New global USE flag called "ios", not same as "ipod" ?

[Angelo Arrifano]

On Ter, 2011-03-29 at 06:23 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> The magic number is often 5, this is 4 but it's only magic!
>
> ios (gnome-base/gvfs):
> ios (media-libs/libgpod):
> ios (media-sound/clementine):
> ios (sys-power/upower):
>
>
> Does this look proper?
>
> "Enable imobiledevice support for Apple's iPhone, iPod, and iPad with
> iOS operating system."
>
> Hints from here:
>
> http://www.libimobiledevice.org/
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_(Apple)
>

Not quite. ipod flag usually covers the old iPod versions without iOS.
The iphone use flag covers some features present on the iPhone and not
necessarily present on all iPods (with iOS). So yeah, the ios use flag
makes sense to cover all devices with iOS ipod or iphone.

Regards,
-- 
Angelo Arrifano (miknix)
Developer / GPE maintainer
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