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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New global USE flag 'share'
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 17:14:41
Message-Id: b264fb4ae9e82f1f65273e59a98b46dff54accc2.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New global USE flag 'share' by Andreas Sturmlechner
1 On Mon, 2020-04-13 at 18:22 +0200, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
2 > On Monday, 13 April 2020 18:11:46 CEST Michał Górny wrote:
3 > > On Mon, 2020-04-13 at 18:09 +0200, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
4 > > > "Enable support to share content with other devices or using online
5 > > > services"
6 > > Isn't that roughly equivalent to USE=sendto and possibly more names for
7 > > the same concept?
8 >
9 > Sounds about right. USE="sendto" currently has gnome-base/nautilus as only
10 > user?
11 >
12 > Existing user of USE="share" outside of KDE proj:
13 > mate-extra/caja-extensions - Add an extension to support sharing files.
14 >
15 > Possible other candidates?
16 > app-admin/keepassxc[keeshare] - "Enable KeeShare sharing integration"
17 >
18 > I didn't find other examples.
19
20 It's a feature that's hard to name. To be honest, I don't like naming
21 it 'share' -- it makes me think of /usr/share, not 'sharing files'.
22
23 --
24 Best regards,
25 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New global USE flag 'share' -> 'sendto'? Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@g.o>