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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: New global USE flag called "ios", not same as "ipod" ?
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:16:53
Message-Id: 4D91BF82.4070708@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: New global USE flag called "ios", not same as "ipod" ? by Angelo Arrifano
1 On 03/29/2011 02:07 PM, Angelo Arrifano wrote:
2 > On Ter, 2011-03-29 at 06:23 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote:
3 >> The magic number is often 5, this is 4 but it's only magic!
4 >>
5 >> ios (gnome-base/gvfs):
6 >> ios (media-libs/libgpod):
7 >> ios (media-sound/clementine):
8 >> ios (sys-power/upower):
9 >>
10 >>
11 >> Does this look proper?
12 >>
13 >> "Enable imobiledevice support for Apple's iPhone, iPod, and iPad with
14 >> iOS operating system."
15 >>
16 >> Hints from here:
17 >>
18 >> http://www.libimobiledevice.org/
19 >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_(Apple)
20 >>
21 >
22 > Not quite. ipod flag usually covers the old iPod versions without iOS.
23 > The iphone use flag covers some features present on the iPhone and not
24 > necessarily present on all iPods (with iOS). So yeah, the ios use flag
25 > makes sense to cover all devices with iOS ipod or iphone.
26 >
27 > Regards,
28
29 What do you mean by "Not quite." when you basically confirmed everything
30 I've said?
31
32 BTW, There is no more USE="iphone" in Portage.

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