Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate USE flags

[Peter Humphrey]

On Wednesday 06 Jul 2016 12:11:02 waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote:
> > >> Hello list,
> > >>
> > >> Can anyone tell me why we have two USE flags for the same thing?
> > >> Geoloc and geolocation both switch on geolocation but in different
> > >> packages.
>
>   Would you believe 4 flags?  geolocation/geoip/geoipv2/geoloc

<Boggle...>

> On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 11:05:54AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote
>
> > Just to add one note, this happens fairly often, and when people
> > notice we generally fix it.  New USE flags pop up all the time,
> > because new ideas in software come up all the time...
>
> [i3][waltdnes][~] grep ":geoi\|:geol" /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc
>
> dev-qt/qtwebengine:geolocation - Enable physical position determination via
> dev-qt/qtpositioning dev-qt/qtwebkit:geolocation - Enable physical position
> determination via dev-qt/qtpositioning
> kde-plasma/plasma-workspace:geolocation - Enables dataengine providing
> location information media-gfx/kphotoalbum:geolocation - Add support for
> kde-apps/marble net-analyzer/bro:geoip - Enable support for Maxmind's GeoIP
> library net-analyzer/pmacct:geoipv2 - Add support for GeoIP2 through
> dev-libs/libmaxminddb net-im/empathy:geoloc - Enable geolocation support
> through app-misc/geoclue net-irc/inspircd:geoip - Add geoip support for
> country and city lookup based on IPs net-libs/webkit-gtk:geoloc - Enable
> geolocation support through app-misc/geoclue www-apache/mod_security:geoip
> - Configure ModSecurity to query the GeoIP database from MaxMind, provided
> by dev-libs/geoip. This flag only controls the default configuration, as
> the GeoIP query code is part of ModSecurity's source code.
>
>   Maybe they should be consolidated into one global flag, and moved out
> of use.local.desc into use.desc.

Well, you could always suggest that in the bug report...

-- 
Rgds
Peter