Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:04:27
Message-Id: 201006211003.09963.aballier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection by Arun Raghavan
1 On Monday 21 June 2010 09:53:02 Arun Raghavan wrote:
2 > On 21 June 2010 11:43, Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote:
3 > [...]
4 >
5 > >> introspection: Add gobject-introspection support, allowing for the
6 > >> dynamic generation of bindings for various languages
7 > >
8 > > why not naming the useflag gobject-introspection then ?
9 >
10 > Mostly because it seems exceedingly verbose to me (yes, I know we have
11 > longer USE flags, and I find them too long as well).
12
13 well, it removes any possible ambiguity; it's meaning may be obvious for you
14 but for me, when I see an "introspection" useflag, I wonder why that package
15 would like to do its self psychanalysis...
16
17 also, remember that having useflag descriptions is only an addition to accurate
18 useflag names, not a justification for having vague names
19
20 A.

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature