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From: flameeyes@gmail.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?Q?Petten=C3=B2?=)
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] global useflags
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:13:35
Message-Id: m263wsaa3u.fsf@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] global useflags by Markus Meier
1 Markus Meier <maekke@g.o> writes:
2
3 > hdf5: Adds support for the Hierarchical Data Format v5
4
5 And what the heck is the Hierarchical data Format v5? :P But I admit
6 it's still better than "Adds support for HDF v5"...
7
8 > djvu: Enable djvu support
9
10 Not much more useful than just "djvu". beside the capitalization should
11 be DjVu (iirc), it would be nice to say at least what DjVu is supposed
12 to be...
13
14 > cxx: Enable support for C++
15
16 I'd rather use "Builds support for C++ (bindings, extra libraries, code
17 generation, ...)"
18
19 > css: Enables ripping of encrypted DVDs
20
21 Are we sure that nothing intends css as Cascading Style Sheet?
22
23 > fontconfig: Support for managing custom fonts via
24 > media-libs/fontconfig
25
26 A bit better, but it's not to manage custom fonts, more like custom
27 fonts options...
28
29 > highlight: Enable source code highlighting
30
31 Uh? I don't really want to look what does make that an option worth an
32 USE flag...
33
34 > cvs: Enable CVS (Concurrent Versions System) support
35
36 Maybe "integration" rather than "support", if it's always integration
37 that is enabled...
38
39 --
40 Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
41 http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] global useflags Markus Meier <maekke@g.o>