Re: [gentoo-dev] New global useflag proposals

[Alexis Ballier]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:16:12 +0100
Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> wrote:

> Le vendredi 23 novembre 2012 à 15:03 +0100, Tomáš Chvátal a écrit :
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > wayland: Enable dev-libs/wayland backend
> >
> > vdpau: Enable the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix
> > acceleration interface.
>
> While at it, I'd like to finally have USE=introspection a global USE
> flag. The gnome team had to stay with local flags because we are not
> willing to change ebuilds (114 by use.local.desc count) using it and
> we've always had an argument that maybe someday, somebody else will do
> introspection and that would confuse people.
>
> Well it's been a few years now (at least 2 by gnome release count),
> and nothing comparable has emerged in gentoo (at least). So, can we go
> forward with this now ?

IOW: there used to be objections but we never listened to them and
didn't use the opportunity of a new major version to rename the useflag
so we now would like to have the useflag global :=)


I remember I was more or less against it being global back then, but
now I must admit its meaning is quite clear and that I don't consider
it local anymore (I enable/disable it in make.conf not package.use), so
I'd say go for it.