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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:33:40
Message-Id: 514AE1BF.3030605@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag? by Ulrich Mueller
1 On 21/03/13 12:29, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 > These packages have inotify as local USE flag:
3 >
4 > app-editors/emacs-vcs
5 > app-misc/recoll
6 > app-misc/strigi
7 > dev-libs/ecore
8 > dev-vcs/git-annex
9 > media-sound/mpd
10 > net-im/ekg2
11 > net-misc/mediatomb
12 > sys-fs/aufs2
13 > sys-fs/aufs3
14 > sys-process/cronie
15 >
16 > Should we make it a global flag? What description is better:
17 >
18 > inotify - Enable inotify filesystem monitoring support
19 > inotify - Enable inotify file change notification support
20
21 +1, ...
22
23 ... despite that most of these shouldn't even have a USE flag for
24 inotify, instead it should always be enabled with 'kernel_linux' and let
25 the application itself do a runtime check if inotify is available or not
26 since these have no external dependencies (other than virtual/os-headers)
27 not everything should be put behind USE flag :-/
28
29 - Samuli

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag? "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>