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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag called "qrcode" for QR code support
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 15:21:10
Message-Id: 52F3A859.5070303@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag called "qrcode" for QR code support by Peter Stuge
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4 On 06/02/14 05:26 AM, Peter Stuge wrote:
5 > Samuli Suominen wrote:
6 >> New global USE flag 'qrcode' for the
7 >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code (sorry, page didn't load for
8 >> me so I hope it's okay) I propose 'Enable support for 2D QR
9 >> Codes' ?
10 > ..
11 >> And app-office/glabels has USE="barcode" but it also pulls in
12 >> app-text/barcode, so likely it can do normal barcodes too, not
13 >> just QR codes, so it can propably stay as-is.
14 >
15 > This is a little bit hairy..
16 >
17 > How will qrcode relate to barcode? Since they are intimately
18 > related in practice I (as a user) would expect such global USE
19 > flags to also be related.
20 >
21 > One could argue that barcode is a superset of qrcode and thus
22 > perhaps having a more specific flag isn't sensible unless there are
23 > actually ebuilds/upstreams which allow such fine grain control of
24 > what codes are supported?
25 >
26
27 +1 .. unless these packages specifically need both flags, one for
28 general barcode support (or all non-QRcode barcode support) and one
29 for QR-codes, it would probably be best to make the use flag generic
30 to cover all barcode types.
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