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From: Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:44:08
Message-Id: 20130321114356.6340.qmail@stuge.se
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag? by Ulrich Mueller
1 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 > Should we make it a global flag?
3
4 Sure.
5
6 > What description is better:
7 >
8 > inotify - Enable inotify filesystem monitoring support
9 > inotify - Enable inotify file change notification support
10
11 The former is more correct, because inotify provides notifications
12 for more than just file changes.
13
14
15 Samuli Suominen wrote:
16 > it should always be enabled with 'kernel_linux' and let the
17 > application itself do a runtime check if inotify is available or not
18
19 I think it's great if you are working on such patches for upstreams!
20
21
22 //Peter

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag? Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>