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From: Arun Raghavan <ford_prefect@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make libevent a global use flag?
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:57:08
Message-Id: AANLkTikWBe8-CbWOeuSEWHTFxOQtnNud+gfJkXd4wTWX@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Make libevent a global use flag? by Dirkjan Ochtman
1 On 16 March 2011 15:00, Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o> wrote:
2 > Local use flags so far:
3 >
4 > dev-db/mariadb:libevent - Use libevent for connection handling
5 > net-dns/unbound:libevent - Use dev-libs/libevent instead of internal
6 > select based events
7 > net-im/bitlbee:libevent - Use libevent for event handling
8 > x11-misc/bmpanel:libevent - Use the libevent event loop interface
9 > net-im/prosody:libevent - Use libevent for event handling
10
11 As before with libcanberra, I don't think it makes sense to have basic
12 libraries like this as USE-flags. AFAICT, this should just become a
13 hard-dep in most cases, and where there's a compelling reason for the
14 ebuild to provide an alternative (or internal) event system, have this
15 as a default-enabled USE-flag.
16
17 Cheers,
18 --
19 Arun Raghavan
20 http://arunraghavan.net/
21 (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)