Bug 48002

Summary:	Wish: USE flag for bluetooth
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Thomas L. Kjeldsen <tlk>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Mobile Herd (OBSOLETE) <mobile+disabled>
Status:	VERIFIED NEEDINFO
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	48003

Description Thomas L. Kjeldsen 2004-04-15 21:06:47 UTC

As I expect several packages to support bluetooth in the future I suggest introducing a bluetooth USE flag to let users indicate that they want to enable bluetooth-related options when they install packages.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Thomas L. Kjeldsen 2004-04-15 22:33:25 UTC

Hm. Well, here's a counter-argument: most, if not all, bluetooth stacks implements the RFCOMM protocol which provides emulation of serial ports. If an application is able to interface with a serial port it is in fact able to interface with devices through Bluetooth, IdDA or old fashioned serial cable. Hence, there may be no need of a bluetooth USE flag.

Comment 2 Daniel Black (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-24 18:32:25 UTC

Thomas, Please provide list of packages and show they have the option to select bluetooth options in their normal compulation steps. Patches to ebuilds would be very much appreciated.

Comment 3 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-05-20 17:54:54 UTC

no comment on bug in a while - closing.

Comment 4 Henrik Brix Andersen 2004-12-29 06:21:14 UTC

Closing due to lack of feedback.