On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 17:35 +0100, Lars Strojny wrote: > when taking a look at the freewrl-ebuild I saw that the useflag > "mozilla" is used for quite different things. E.g. in the java-ebuilds > for building a browserplugin or not. This makes really no sense, because > the plugin isn't mozilla-specific but can be used by various browsers.
Yeah, that bugs the hell out of me, too. I don't use "mozilla" but instead mozilla-firefox and I find it annoying that I have to have "mozilla" listed in package.use to get the plugin to install. IMHO it should install it no matter what, as it used to do, especially considering that the "install" is just a directory and a symlink. > In mail-client/evolution it is used to choose mozilla's SSL-library, > as it has also been in gaim. > > I think it would be a good idea to have an useflag "browserplugin", > which is used for the java-stuff and e.g. for freewrl *and* to use the > mozilla-useflag _only_ for things, where it makes really sense. For > evolution it would make sense to have a local useflag e.g. called > mozilla-ssl. For evolution/gaim, I think it is being used correctly. It is adding support for using parts of mozilla, rather than an external source. This makes sense to me. I don't really see the need for the additional USE flag, as USE="mozilla ssl" would be the same as USE="mozilla-ssl". -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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