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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] introspection use flag
Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 12:56:57
Message-Id: BANLkTi=dk66Ewbj65XKTMk1i+T=KTrTwQA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] introspection use flag by Marijn
1 On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Marijn <hkBst@g.o> wrote:
2 > Current descriptions are:
3 >
4 > Use dev-libs/gobject-introspection for introspection
5 > Enable GObject introspection.
6 >
7 > Currently it is hard to tell which functionality is enabled through this
8 > flag and the meaning of the descriptions for when the flag is off are
9 > even more unclear. Does it mean that introspection will not be used or
10 > will some other way of introspection be used? Either way, perhaps the
11 > people in the know could shed some light on this issue?
12 >
13
14 All uses of this USE-flag are identical, and mean that Introspection
15 girs and typelibs will be built using gobject-introspection for usage
16 with bindings, etc. If the use-flag is off, this data is not built.
17
18 --
19 ~Nirbheek Chauhan
20
21 Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team