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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: eva@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] making USE=upnp a global flag
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:07:02
Message-Id: 20120918100551.65b1e254@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] making USE=upnp a global flag by Gilles Dartiguelongue
1 On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:55:16 +0200
2 Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Le samedi 08 septembre 2012 à 20:29 +0200, Michał Górny a écrit :
5 > > On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 10:37:49 -0700
6 > > Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
7 > >
8 > > > i'm surprised this hasn't happened already. currently at 18 users
9 > > > (and i'm adding another), so time to make global. i'll use the
10 > > > description:
11 > > > upnp: Enable support for the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)
12 > > > network protocol
13 > >
14 > > Not sure about that description. It's whole stack of protocols which
15 > > usually benefit from more refined description.
16 > >
17 > > On the other hand, the local descriptions in the tree show that some
18 > > people simply don't care and you are guessing what it does anyway...
19 > >
20 > "Enable support for DLNA/UPnP" seems a good enough description. People
21 > that care about it most likely will know two things about it:
22 > * opens up ports on the router for torrents/games
23 > * makes PC talk to TV/console for audio/video
24
25 But these are two distinct things. The first one may be useful for me,
26 the second one won't.
27
28 --
29 Best regards,
30 Michał Górny

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