On 21/03/13 13:43, Peter Stuge wrote:
Ulrich Mueller wrote:
Should we make it a global flag?
Sure.
What description is better:
inotify - Enable inotify filesystem monitoring support
inotify - Enable inotify file change notification support
The former is more correct, because inotify provides notifications
for more than just file changes.
Samuli Suominen wrote:
it should always be enabled with 'kernel_linux' and let the
application itself do a runtime check if inotify is available or not
I think it's great if you are working on such patches for upstreams!
no, i'm talking from experience -- every package I've seen/touched/...
with IUSE="inotify" has had code that made it safe to use also for
non-inotify'd kernels
i'm referring to the mistakes done by maintainers by adding
unnecessarily the flag
cut the sarcasm :-)
- Samuli
