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From: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] making USE=upnp a global flag
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 22:08:15
Message-Id: 1349734033.3522.1.camel@kanae
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] making USE=upnp a global flag by "Michał Górny"
1 Le jeudi 04 octobre 2012 à 11:30 +0200, Michał Górny a écrit :
2 > On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:44:42 +0200
3 > Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > Le mercredi 19 septembre 2012 à 10:19 +0200, Michał Górny a écrit :
6 > > >
7 > > > Just to make it clear:
8 > > > - USE=upnp for upnp-igd or nat-pmp,
9 > > > - USE=dlna for the video magic and so on.
10 > > >
11 > > > Do I understand correctly?
12 > >
13 > > No, TV makers and others advertise UPnP as DLNA (digital living network
14 > > appliance) but that actually refers to both port forwarding (eg. used in
15 > > consoles) and to media streaming (eg. PC to TV).
16 > >
17 > > Both flags should most likely start with dlna, then we need to figure
18 > > out a suffix :)
19 > >
20 > > I propose dlna-av and dlna-network.
21 >
22 > Not necessarily DLNA, since port forwarding is often UPnP or NAT-PMP
23 > (with the latter having nothing to DLNA).
24 >
25 > We could go for USE=port-forwarding or something shorter but I guess
26 > most people think of it just as 'upnp'. Or 'upnp-igd', or just 'igd'.
27 >
28 > Similarly, 'upnp-av' for how gupnp calls it. Or something for streaming.
29 >
30
31 upnp-av and upnp-igd are fine for me.
32
33 Proposal descriptions:
34 upnp-av - Enable UPnP Audio/Video streaming support
35 upnp-igd - Enable UPnP port mapping support
36
37 --
38 Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
39 Gentoo

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