On Wednesday 06 Jul 2016 12:11:02 [email protected] wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Mike Gilbert <[email protected]> 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
<Boggle...> > 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. Well, you could always suggest that in the bug report... -- Rgds Peter
