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From: Peter Weller <welp@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: New global USE flag: keyring
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:17:48
Message-Id: 1208708272.15500.11.camel@marx
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: New global USE flag: keyring by "Tiziano Müller"
1 On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 18:06 +0200, Tiziano Müller wrote:
2 > Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
3 >
4 > > 2008/4/20 Peter Weller <welp@g.o>:
5 > >> On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 18:32 +0300, Ali Polatel wrote:
6 > >> > Alon Bar-Lev yazm??:
7 > >> > > I suggest gnome-something as it is gnome feature.
8 > >> >
9 > >> > How about gnome-keyring? :)
10 > >> >
11 > >>
12 > >> Why? All the ebuilds currently using the 'keyring' use flag are using it
13 > >> for gnome-keyring. As long as there is a proper description of the USE
14 > >> flag, there should be no confusion caused.
15 > >
16 > > Because it may be confusing.
17 > True.
18 "Proper description of the USE flag"
19
20 > > As long as it is local flag for gnome packages, the gnome is implicit.
21 > > If you want it to be global, gnome should be explicit.
22 > Only in case there are other packages which use a 'keyring' use flag which
23 > means something else than support for gnome-keyring.
24 >
25 > I'd say we should convert it to a global use flag now with a good
26 > description and change it to gnome-keyring later in case we really have a
27 > package which needs 'keyring' for something else.
28 I agree with what dev-zero just wrote there.
29
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: New global USE flag: keyring "Santiago M. Mola" <coldwind@g.o>