On Tuesday 16 of August 2011 22:14:28 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > 2011/8/17 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chith...@gentoo.org>: > > Nirbheek Chauhan schrieb: > >>>> A side-note that we've wanted to get out to all devs is that everyone > >>>> should *always* use IUSE="+introspection". > >>> > >>> Then why is it a flag? > >> > >> So that people who use, say, json-glib in embedded environments don't > >> need to pull in a package that is quite unnecessary for them. > > > > Then why don't you make it a default flag in desktop/gnome profile > > instead? That way, the embedded users who don't use a desktop profile > > won't even need to take action to disable the flag. > > We didn't do that because the use-case for not enabling introspection > is a marginal one.
Ah, use case like KDE, we get it, Nirbheek :D As soon as it can be globally disabled (with a loss of functionality and packages availability) I won't complain. -- regards MM
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