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From: Tiziano Müller <dev-zero@g.o>
Subject: Re: Re: New global USE flag: keyring
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:06:07 +0200
Alon Bar-Lev wrote:

> 2008/4/20 Peter Weller <welp@g.o>:
>> On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 18:32 +0300, Ali Polatel wrote:
>> > Alon Bar-Lev yazm??:
>> > > I suggest gnome-something as it is gnome feature.
>> >
>> > How about gnome-keyring? :)
>> >
>>
>> Why? All the ebuilds currently using the 'keyring' use flag are using it
>> for gnome-keyring. As long as there is a proper description of the USE
>> flag, there should be no confusion caused.
> 
> Because it may be confusing.
True.

> As long as it is local flag for gnome packages, the gnome is implicit.
> If you want it to be global, gnome should be explicit.
Only in case there are other packages which use a 'keyring' use flag which
means something else than support for gnome-keyring.

I'd say we should convert it to a global use flag now with a good
description and change it to gnome-keyring later in case we really have a
package which needs 'keyring' for something else.


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