-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 06/02/14 05:26 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Samuli Suominen wrote: >> New global USE flag 'qrcode' for the >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code (sorry, page didn't load for >> me so I hope it's okay) I propose 'Enable support for 2D QR >> Codes' ? > .. >> And app-office/glabels has USE="barcode" but it also pulls in >> app-text/barcode, so likely it can do normal barcodes too, not >> just QR codes, so it can propably stay as-is. > > This is a little bit hairy.. > > How will qrcode relate to barcode? Since they are intimately > related in practice I (as a user) would expect such global USE > flags to also be related. > > One could argue that barcode is a superset of qrcode and thus > perhaps having a more specific flag isn't sensible unless there are > actually ebuilds/upstreams which allow such fine grain control of > what codes are supported? >
+1 .. unless these packages specifically need both flags, one for general barcode support (or all non-QRcode barcode support) and one for QR-codes, it would probably be best to make the use flag generic to cover all barcode types. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlLzqFkACgkQ2ugaI38ACPBbFgD/SfGUjhFUnclwI5nOJjsc/mdc VFXpdkI3GfqUauH7fq4BAIrTGIPp6T9URlO6MJX2ALpYSVhKmwB/14W5EVezPxI1 =tacR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
