On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 15:42 +0200, Benedikt Morbach wrote: > I think it should be made consistent or it should be turned into a > local use flag. > no-* or *-only flag don't make sense in my opinion, because you can > get the same with: > -gui instead of nogui (maybe -gtk/-qt4/-kde or something would be even better) > -* server instead of server-only (sure, this can only be done for each > single package, but it looks cleaner to me than -only) > > Benedikt
Some packages also have the X USE-flag. Though this USE-flag is often used to enable linking against X; disabling doesn't mean to remove the GUI (it's often for games or libs like libsdl which have alternative gfx output like aalib, framebuffer, etc.). There is also already a guionly and a client-only USE-flag. But I don't think this is a good USE-flag for games because it's somehow confusing then if you want to have only the dedicated server and not the GUI. I also don't like no* USE-flags that much. But there are already a lot available. I thought they were introduced because it's most probable that you want to have the specific support and if not, you have to specify this explicitly. I think the server USE-flag is a good USE-flag to enable/disable the support of a dedicated server of a specific game. This USE-flag is intuitivly clear. The GUI would not depend on the server USE-flag. For the GUI, perhaps the USE-flag client would be good. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
