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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=introspection has been unmasked in the tree
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:31:12
Message-Id: 4E4AC554.2040100@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=introspection has been unmasked in the tree by Nirbheek Chauhan
1 Nirbheek Chauhan schrieb:
2 >>> A side-note that we've wanted to get out to all devs is that everyone
3 >>> should *always* use IUSE="+introspection".
4 >> Then why is it a flag?
5 >>
6 > So that people who use, say, json-glib in embedded environments don't
7 > need to pull in a package that is quite unnecessary for them.
8 >
9
10 Then why don't you make it a default flag in desktop/gnome profile
11 instead? That way, the embedded users who don't use a desktop profile
12 won't even need to take action to disable the flag.
13
14
15 Best regards,
16 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyen

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Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=introspection has been unmasked in the tree Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>