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From: Lars Weiler <pylon@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Discussion for new use-flag: dvdr
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 11:43:51
Message-Id: 20030904113957.GC6591@celeborn.wh-og.hs-niederrhein.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Discussion for new use-flag: dvdr by Luke-Jr
1 * Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o> [03/09/04 03:03 +0000]:
2 >It shouldn't matter how many ebuilds implement the USE flags, but the scope
3 >they can affect. cdr, dvd, and dvdr all deal with hardware support, so it
4 >only makes sense for them to be global...
5
6 You're right. Maybe we should notice it in the
7 USE-flag-policy.
8
9 >There should probably be a dvdram USE flag also, but I don't know if
10 >*anything* would implement it, so maybe not.
11
12 Ehm, DVD-RAMs are accessed like a SCSI-device (at least the
13 5 year old model I own). So there is no need for further
14 application-based dvdram extensions.
15
16 Regards, Lars

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Discussion for new use-flag: dvdr Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o>