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From: Drake Wyrm <wyrm@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag - gs
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:01:14
Message-Id: 20060110025839.GA31758@phaenix.haell.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag - gs by Lares Moreau
1 Lares Moreau <lares.moreau@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > media-gfx/graphicsmagick:gs - enable ghostscript support
3 > media-gfx/imagemagick:gs - enable ghostscript support
4 > media-libs/urt:gs - Add support for postscript
5 >
6 > Looking in these ebuilds, all:
7 > gs? ( virtual/ghostscript )
8
9 For how many of these might it make sense to use "ps - enable postscript
10 support" rather than "gs - enable ghostscript support"? If I understand
11 correctly, the consensus is that use flags should reflect the capability
12 enabled rather than the name of the library or package which provides
13 that capability.
14
15 --
16 That is not dead which can eternal lie,
17 And with strange eons even death may die.
18 -- The Call of Cthulu, II. The Tale of Inspector Legrasse

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Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag - gs Lares Moreau <lares.moreau@×××××.com>