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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: ssuominen@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=gui?
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:13:40
Message-Id: 20120416191212.4e4cc4da@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=gui? by Samuli Suominen
1 On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:22:22 +0300
2 Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 04/16/2012 11:11 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:12:16 +0200
6 > > ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr.""<phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote:
7 > >
8 > >> On 4/10/12 8:58 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
9 > >>> Other option would be to enable "wxwidgets" by default for that
10 > >>> profiles.
11 > >>
12 > >> I prefer this. Changing USE flag meaning in a counter-intuitive way
13 > >> (to let "gtk" mean "wxwidgets") would seem frustrating to me.
14 > >>
15 > >> With "wxwidgets" enabled by default people will get the most likely
16 > >> desired result (i.e. GUI) "out of the box", and setting
17 > >> USE="-wxwidgets" will have desired effect.
18 > >>
19 > >> Note that with USE="gtk" really meaning USE="wxwidgets", -wxwidgets
20 > >> would have no effect on such a package, which is the potentially
21 > >> surprising behavior I mentioned earlier.
22 > >
23 > > On the other hand, we should ask ourselves whether the USE flags are
24 > > very intuitive right now.
25 > >
26 > > Say, we have USE=ssl which enables SSL support. We already agreed
27 > > that's the correct meaning of it, and USE=gnutls,openssl,nss are
28 > > just to be used when there's more than one implementation to choose
29 > > from.
30 >
31 > USE=ssl is also meaning OpenSSL and there should be no USE=openssl
32
33 There could be one if an ebuild wishes to use non-openssl impl by
34 default but allows user to force openssl.
35
36 --
37 Best regards,
38 Michał Górny

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