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> On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> Hello list, |
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> >> Can anyone tell me why we have two USE flags for the same thing? |
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> >> Geoloc and geolocation both switch on geolocation but in different |
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> >> packages. |
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Would you believe 4 flags? geolocation/geoip/geoipv2/geoloc |
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On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 11:05:54AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote |
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> Just to add one note, this happens fairly often, and when people |
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> notice we generally fix it. New USE flags pop up all the time, |
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> because new ideas in software come up all the time... |
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[i3][waltdnes][~] grep ":geoi\|:geol" /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc |
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dev-qt/qtwebengine:geolocation - Enable physical position determination via dev-qt/qtpositioning |
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dev-qt/qtwebkit:geolocation - Enable physical position determination via dev-qt/qtpositioning |
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kde-plasma/plasma-workspace:geolocation - Enables dataengine providing location information |
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media-gfx/kphotoalbum:geolocation - Add support for kde-apps/marble |
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net-analyzer/bro:geoip - Enable support for Maxmind's GeoIP library |
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net-analyzer/pmacct:geoipv2 - Add support for GeoIP2 through dev-libs/libmaxminddb |
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net-im/empathy:geoloc - Enable geolocation support through app-misc/geoclue |
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net-irc/inspircd:geoip - Add geoip support for country and city lookup based on IPs |
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net-libs/webkit-gtk:geoloc - Enable geolocation support through app-misc/geoclue |
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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. |
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Maybe they should be consolidated into one global flag, and moved out |
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of use.local.desc into use.desc. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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