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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: Patrick Kursawe <phosphan@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New szip USE flag?
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 12:27:33
Message-Id: 1084883612.26947.30.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New szip USE flag? by Patrick Kursawe
1 On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 01:38, Patrick Kursawe wrote:
2 > On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 03:33:59PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
3 > > > both media-gfx/opendx and dev-libs/hdf could use an "szip" USE flag for
4 > > > using the szip compression library.
5 > > > If there are no objections, I will add this in a few days.
6 > >
7 > > Global or local?
8 >
9 > Since this would be used by two packages, I'd say that a global flag makes
10 > more sense than two local ones - or what do you think about this?
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12 I don't see a problem with it. Personally, I don't think about making a
13 flag global until I use it in at least 3 or more ebuilds, but that's
14 just a personal, unwritten rule.
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