On Wednesday 06 Jul 2016 10:31:26 Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 5:10 AM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Can anyone tell me why we have two USE flags for the same thing? Geoloc > > and > > geolocation both switch on geolocation but in different packages. > > > > This duplication caused me much head-scratching and needless extra work in > > trying to install a plasma system without NetworkManager. > > Two different developers working on separate packages came up with > similar looking USE flags. The GNOME team went with geoloc, while the > KDE team went with geolocation.
I think they're more than similar looking: they're functionally identical. > Contact the relevant developers or file a bug if you think they should > be consolidated. Done: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588168 -- Rgds Peter
