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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