[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] global useflags

2008-05-14 Thread Steve Long
server -- never did get a rational explanation of what it breaks. and now USE defaults work there's simply no excuse imo. I note openldap in 2008.0 profile uses minimal which has *always* been acknowledged as the wrong way to build a client installation, despite its long-standing use in mysql.

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] global useflags

2008-02-15 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Steve Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well if you're going for a widely-known acronym outside Gentoo-land it'd be decss: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS I've always wondered why that wasn't used in the first place (not that it helps now; just found css odd for the same reason as others.)

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] global useflags

2008-02-15 Thread Duncan
Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:26:57 +1100: djvu: support DjVu, a PDF-like document format esp. suited for scanned documents Looks just about perfect, here. =8^) In contrast, the previous proposal may be more technically

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] global useflags

2008-02-14 Thread Peter Volkov
В Срд, 13/02/2008 в 21:38 +0100, Markus Meier пишет: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:13:09 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò) wrote: css: Enables ripping of encrypted DVDs Are we sure that nothing intends css as Cascading Style Sheet? app-cdr/k3b:css - Enables ripping of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] global useflags

2008-02-14 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
Seems that this arose from media-libs/libdvdcss... Can we rename this to dvdcss to make it clear that this have something to do with dvds and not with web technologies? To find out what a USE flag is for, we have descriptions. Which *actual* packages would benefit from changing the current css

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] global useflags

2008-02-14 Thread Peter Volkov
В Чтв, 14/02/2008 в 11:33 +0100, Wulf C. Krueger пишет: Which *actual* packages would benefit from changing the current css USE flag to something different? Of course, I'm not talking about benefit for packages but about benefit for users (me included). Technically we could name USE-flags using

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] global useflags

2008-02-14 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
Which *actual* packages would benefit from changing the current span index=4 id=message4 name=incorrect class=incorrectcss/span USE flag to something different? Of course, I'm not talking about benefit for packages but about benefit for users (me included). Yes, of course, but unless there

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] global useflags

2008-02-14 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Peter Volkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Seems that this arose from media-libs/libdvdcss... Can we rename this to dvdcss to make it clear that this have something to do with dvds and not with web technologies? I'd actually agree on this, while css is currently just used for Content Scramble

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] global useflags

2008-02-14 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
On Thursday, 14. February 2008 22:23:57 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: While changing an USE flag on the run is not a nice thing for users, I think that disambiguating this is a good idea. Where is the pressing need to do that? Again, which current package would use a re-defined css USE

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] global useflags

2008-02-14 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Wulf C. Krueger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where is the pressing need to do that? Again, which current package would use a re-defined css USE flag? No package would use it, and there is no _pressing_ need. I still think it's nicer to let the user understand. What if we had qt referring to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] global useflags

2008-02-14 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Markus Meier [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:38:36 +0100: djvu: Enable support for DjVu (a digital document format with advanced compression technology and high

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] global useflags

2008-02-13 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Markus Meier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hdf5: Adds support for the Hierarchical Data Format v5 And what the heck is the Hierarchical data Format v5? :P But I admit it's still better than Adds support for HDF v5... djvu: Enable djvu support Not much more useful than just djvu. beside the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] global useflags

2008-02-13 Thread Markus Meier
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:13:09 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò) wrote: Markus Meier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hdf5: Adds support for the Hierarchical Data Format v5 And what the heck is the Hierarchical data Format v5? :P But I admit it's still better than Adds support

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] global useflags

2008-02-13 Thread Duncan
Markus Meier [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:38:36 +0100: djvu: Enable support for DjVu (a digital document format with advanced compression technology and high performance value) I'm not complaining if this is deemed acceptable, but I