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From: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] introspection use flag
Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 12:26:28
Message-Id: 1304684738.4741.4.camel@gdartigu.lan.rep.sj
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] introspection use flag by Marijn
1 Le vendredi 06 mai 2011 à 10:40 +0200, Marijn a écrit :
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5 > Dear all,
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7 > I was just looking into the meaning of the introspection use-flag and
8 > there are many ebuilds that use it so perhaps it should be globalized,
9 > which would also give us a chance to improve the naming/description.
10 > Current descriptions are:
11 >
12 > Use dev-libs/gobject-introspection for introspection
13 > Enable GObject introspection.
14 >
15 > Currently it is hard to tell which functionality is enabled through this
16 > flag and the meaning of the descriptions for when the flag is off are
17 > even more unclear. Does it mean that introspection will not be used or
18 > will some other way of introspection be used? Either way, perhaps the
19 > people in the know could shed some light on this issue?
20 >
21 > Thanks,
22 >
23 > Marijn
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25 See original thread on this mailing list:
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27 From: Arun Raghavan <ford_prefect@g.o>
28 Subject: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection
29 Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:12:58 +0530 (20/06/2010 16:42:58)
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34 Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
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Re: [gentoo-dev] introspection use flag Marijn <hkBst@g.o>