Re: [gentoo-dev] Possible USE="gnome" abusing in ebuilds.

[Santiago M. Mola]

On 10/12/07, Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> wrote:
>
> Kinda like the GNOME herd does themselves? I've pointed this one out a
> few times just cause it annoys me... gnome-mount has USE=gnome...
> well... DUH! it's a gnome-volume-manager specific and GNOME Desktop
> specific wrapper for HAL based mounting. Obviously it's used by GNOME
> and only does and can function within a GNOME Destkop environment. But
> what does this USE flag mean? Oh, it simply means you want to build the
> Nautilus extension! Do we already have a USE=nautilus? Yes, yes we do.
> It's a local USE flag used in 3 packages, 2 of those 3 are GNOME herd
> packages.
>

I've been told (although as an opinion, not a policy) that
USE="-gnome" means "put as few gnome packages as possible" and
USE="gnome" means the opposite. So I'm going to use this USE flag for
a GNOME app which can use only a few gnome packages at the minimun,
and some others for extra features. GNOME users certainly want to take
advantage of those extra features, and other users don't want to
install so many GNOME packages.

I don't think it's an optimal solution, but adding a new local USE for
every tiny feature would be annoying, and USE="gnome-panel" or
USE="gnome-applets" flag is pretty senseless.

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