On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Frederic Culot wrote:
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 10:19:32AM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
Lots of people are asking to change the name saying they don't like USE_FEATURES
here is the list of proposition that have been made, please vote for you
favorites :)
USE_FEATURES: keep it as is it is cool
USE_FEATURE: please singular
USES: Why bother with something longer
USE: singular I said
FEATURES: Why keeping USE?
FEATURE: I told you singular!
regards,
Bapt
Being one of those who found USE_FEATURES a bit too long I feel I need
to cast my vote now: I would go for 'USE' as it is shorter and more
generic than 'FEATURE'. Indeed sets of dependencies could be mentioned
here as well (equivalent of USE_XORG for example) which for me are more
requirements than features. Moreover it is closer to the actual USE_*
variables.
Anyway to broaden the choice I also thought about the following:
COMPULSORY
REQUIRE
REQUISITE
MANDATORY
WANT/WANTED
NEED/NEEDED
But again, 'USE' is fine by me.
NEEDS was my thought after seeing the first list; REQUIRES is not bad,
either. FEATURES is a little weird because it can be read as a verb:
"this program features these things" when really it's trying to say it
needs these things.
USE works also. The concern there is overloading.
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