Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> posted 4a26d241.60...@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:42:57 +0300:
> Mounir Lamouri wrote: >> Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> Mart Raudsepp wrote: >>> >>>> On K, 2009-06-03 at 02:13 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: >>>> >>>>> USE network is used by 9 ebuilds, and one is using USE networking >>>>> which can be converted, that'd be 10. >>>>> >>> USE network "Enable networking support >> Maybe "network" and "net" could be merged ? >> >> Mounir >> >> > Yes. USE="networking" and USE="net" to global USE flag "network". They > all seem to do the same thing. In at least one I package I use, media-sound/mpd, USE=network doesn't really do what it says on the tin. Currently, "the tin" says "Enable network streaming support". However, what it does is enable network streaming /server/, with the requisite encoding, etc. Network streaming /client/ support is always enabled for this package, regardless of the USE=network setting, and indeed, I happily listen to incoming shoutcast streams all the time despite USE=- network for this package. This was a relatively new flag for this package, added in the fresh ~arch version, and it certainly caused me some initial confusion, until I actually examined the ebuild itself to see what it did. Perhaps a more accurate flag for media-sound/mpd would therefore be USE=server (which BTW has all sorts of local entries, but AFAIK, has been disapproved as a global USE flag before). -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
