From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@gmail.com>,
Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>,
Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: --disable-features in 109483
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 16:49:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8Pv0hPGkejaNwV9y+=ntFS9Yv0Tmd7y+LwVEWf9v4vCdrpaA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2haseyf9f.fsf@igel.home>
>>> Commit 109483 introduces --disable-features, which is intended to
>>> build small executable with the minimal dependencies; if someone
>>> finds this option useless, confusing or just thinks that something
>>> like --enable-minimal-build may be a bit better, please let me know.
>>
>> --disable-features sounds like it has a mandatory list of features to
>> disable like '--disable-features=xft,xml2'. --enable-minimal-build isn't
>> as ambiguous.
>
> Incidentally, --disable-foo never accepts an argument, whereas
> --enable-foo does (and --disable-foo is the same as --enable-foo=no).
Another nitpick: IMO "--minimal-build" would be more brief and clear.
--
Dani Moncayo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-07 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-07 12:48 --disable-features in 109483 Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-07 12:51 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-08-07 13:59 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-08-07 14:49 ` Dani Moncayo [this message]
2012-08-07 21:36 ` chad
2012-08-08 3:33 ` Chong Yidong
2012-08-08 4:10 ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-08 4:25 ` andres.ramirez
2012-08-08 4:25 ` andres.ramirez
2012-08-08 6:39 ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-08 7:02 ` Chong Yidong
2012-08-08 22:15 ` Richard Stallman
2012-08-08 12:31 ` Stefan Monnier
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