I, as a regular user, second this. Before we had a 'bzlib' USE-flag, and now it is 'bzip2', which is more user-friendlier for users to understand.
On Friday 23 December 2005 03:52, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Thursday 22 December 2005 20:14, Drake Wyrm wrote: > > Query: Which would be more appropriate in this case? "jasper" for the > > library it pulls in as a depend, or "jpeg2k" for the functionality that > > library provides? There's nothing else in the tree (as far as I can > > tell) which provides JPEG-2000, but there could be. > > It is imho a _problem_ when use flags are _unnecessarily_ named after the > library instead the provided functionality. When there are two libs doing > the same thing, a single use flag should suffice: Less use flags mean > reduced complexity for the user, who likely will understand what "jpeg2k" > means, but not "jasper". Which leads me to the next issue; Often you can > read: > > foo - enables support for $category/foo > > Such a description is as good as none. To give a sample how it should be: > > jpeg2k - Support for JPEG 2000, a wavelet-based image compression format. > > > Carsten -- С уважением, Медер Бакиров
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