2015-07-16 18:40 GMT-06:00 walt <[email protected]>:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 02:30:24 +0200
> Volker Armin Hemmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have had -introspection set for ages in make.conf.
>>
>> It is turned on for some selected packages in package.use
>
> Which packages, and what problems were you solving by turning it on?
>
The packages that need it are those that use the gobject libraries
from other languages than C, using the bindings generated with by the
introspection part, the idea is a framework for easily building
bindings to other languages from the C gobject libraries, e.g. all
applications that use gtk3 and are written in python use
introspection.