On 10/10/12 11:27, David Seikel wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:15:47 +0200 Tom Hacohen
> <tom.haco...@samsung.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/10/12 11:11, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> On 10/10/12 10:04, Tom Hacohen wrote:
>>>> On 10/10/12 11:00, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
>>>>> Hello.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/10/12 09:50, David Seikel wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:37:00 +0100 Stefan Schmidt
>>>>>> <s.schm...@samsung.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Image loaders are way more complicated sadly as we drag in
>>>>>>> dependencies here. I would vote for making jpeg, png, gif, bmp,
>>>>>>> eet on by default.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For the others we might need to see what libs distros ship in a
>>>>>>> default installation so we can decide if we have a hard dep on
>>>>>>> these libs or not.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Better would be to remove the options, but detect them at build
>>>>>> time to see if they should be included.  Things should never be
>>>>>> hard dependencies, unless they actually are.
>>>>>
>>>>> I see that you don't want to have this for your embedded
>>>>> project. :)
>>>>>
>>>>> But I disagree here. Autodetection is even worse in the case for
>>>>> the image loaders as your application will fail during runtime to
>>>>> load a theme or display thumbnails, etc. In your strictly
>>>>> controlled env this is not a problem as you can only blame
>>>>> yourself but in my opinion this is a no-no for almost all other
>>>>> users. Thus I would vote against autodetection and choose the
>>>>> hard deps carefully to fit the majority of our users.
>>>>
>>>> I'm also against autodetection. I prefer strict option setting.
>>>> But you want to have them (all?) on by default and just let people
>>>> disable them if needed.
>>>
>>> This would defeat the original purpose of removing options,
>>> right? :)
>>>
>>> regards
>>> Stefan Schmidt
>>>
>>
>> I think the ideas is to remove useless options, not useful. :)
>> I'm not really against it, I'm fine with automagically detecting
>> stuff if packagers don't find this annoying, the real question is: do
>> they? I know gentoo users don't like it.
>
> Gentoo users want all the "let's tweak this and make it go faster"
> knobs they can get their hands on, and red speed stripes.
>

Speed stripes are pretty awesome. :)

--
Tom.


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