Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=introspection has been unmasked in the tree

[William Hubbs]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 02:03:43AM +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> Jeremy Olexa schrieb:
> > On 08/16/2011 06:07 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> >> The use-case for disabling introspection globally is if you will never
> >> use any gobject language bindings for the next 4-5 years.
> >
> > FYI: I disabled it globally, already, on my server. As the rrdtool stack
> > pulls in pango with the +introspection default. Useless to me, and my
> > host. No problems since June 24 2011. (I thought it was already unmasked
> > since I discovered it enabled back then)
>
> Sounds to me like profile defaults are more appropriate than IUSE
> defaults in this case.

I tend to agree. I would rather see profile defaults here instead of
IUSE forcing on introspection at the package level.

Remember that udev supports introspection, so if I put
IUSE="+introspection" in the udev ebuild, every system that has udev
will have introspection turned on by default unless users disable it.

Also, I see that dev-libs/glib wwants to force introspection onto my
system. I do not use gnome, so I don't know why I need introspection.

Nirbheek/gnome team: Please reconsider this and consider making
introspection a profile default instead.

Thanks,

William