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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag "ps"
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:30:47
Message-Id: 4FDB38C8.6080203@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag "ps" by Samuli Suominen
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4 On 14/06/12 10:43 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
5 > On 06/15/2012 05:02 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
6 >> On Thursday 14 June 2012 21:16:31 Samuli Suominen wrote:
7 >>> So how about renaming USE="gs" consumers to USE="ps" and making
8 >>> USE="ps" global flag with the proposed description?
9 >>
10 >> merging is a good idea. getting away from "ghostscript" is good.
11 >> i might suggest expanding "ps" to "postscript" though as "ps" is
12 >> a bit generic ... -mike
13 >>
14 >
15 > well, I admit I was sort of trying take the shorter road (less to
16 > rename :-)
17 >
18 > so yeah, USE="postscript" it shall be unless someone objects...
19 >
20 > - Samuli
21 >
22
23 This makes sense globally, +1
24
25 As mentioned some packages (graphviz comes to mind also) will need to
26 keep 'gs' locally since it is used as a ghostscript-specific flag.
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