> On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> 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 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. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
