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From: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] making USE=upnp a global flag
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:52:43
Message-Id: 1348012244.28505.2.camel@kanae
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] making USE=upnp a global flag by "Michał Górny"
1 Le mardi 18 septembre 2012 à 10:05 +0200, Michał Górny a écrit :
2 > On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:55:16 +0200
3 > Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > Le samedi 08 septembre 2012 à 20:29 +0200, Michał Górny a écrit :
6 > > > On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 10:37:49 -0700
7 > > > Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
8 > > >
9 > > > > i'm surprised this hasn't happened already. currently at 18 users
10 > > > > (and i'm adding another), so time to make global. i'll use the
11 > > > > description:
12 > > > > upnp: Enable support for the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)
13 > > > > network protocol
14 > > >
15 > > > Not sure about that description. It's whole stack of protocols which
16 > > > usually benefit from more refined description.
17 > > >
18 > > > On the other hand, the local descriptions in the tree show that some
19 > > > people simply don't care and you are guessing what it does anyway...
20 > > >
21 > > "Enable support for DLNA/UPnP" seems a good enough description. People
22 > > that care about it most likely will know two things about it:
23 > > * opens up ports on the router for torrents/games
24 > > * makes PC talk to TV/console for audio/video
25 >
26 > But these are two distinct things. The first one may be useful for me,
27 > the second one won't.
28
29 Let me just say that as a user, concerning this technology aggregate, I
30 really don't care, it has to "just work" :). Now if you gather enough
31 momentum to split this flag and make other people on this list agree
32 with you, I'll be just fine with it :)
33
34 --
35 Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
36 Gentoo

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Re: [gentoo-dev] making USE=upnp a global flag "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu>