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From: Alexander Berntsen <alexander@××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:48:12
Message-Id: 514AF38E.60600@plaimi.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag? by Ulrich Mueller
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4 On 21/03/13 11:29, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
5 > Should we make it a global flag?
6 Sure.
7
8 > What description is better:
9 >
10 > inotify - Enable inotify filesystem monitoring support inotify -
11 > Enable inotify file change notification support
12 >
13 > BTW, half of the local flag descriptions are "Enable inotify
14 > support". Imagine that! ;-)
15 Why not just make it "Enable inotify support", and write more detailed
16 local flags? The local description should tell you what that
17 particular ebuild uses the flag for.
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19 - --
20 Alexander
21 alexander@××××××.net
22 http://plaimi.net/~alexander
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag? Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>