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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev]  Re: why? pciutils with zlib use-flag went stable on x86
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:39:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1186105153.8798.9.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f8slcv$9e2$1@sea.gmane.org>

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On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 14:15 +0100, Steve Long wrote:
> James Cloos wrote:
> > The pciutils ebuild should be re-engineered to use separate USE flags
> > for linking to libz and compressing the database.
> ++
> It may be what upstream (pciutils) do by default, but no other distro ships
> with compressed ids for the reasons you outline (and you can't mmap the
> file). It breaks a default desktop installation (aiui) so it really
> shouldn't use a default system-wide USE flag, but a local one. Anyone who
> really wants it can set it, and everyone else's machines will still work.
> As Mr Gianelloni spelt out on bugzilla[1]:
> "when you install from stage3, then immediately type "emerge [blah]", I
> would expect it to work.  If it does not, then it is a failure in the
> ebuild and a bug... it is your responsility to ensure that your package is
> not broken with a default installation."

That isn't policy, as much as I would like it to be.

Also, both hal and zlib are in USE in the default profiles, so it does
work out of the box right now.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-03  1:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-29 16:44 [gentoo-dev] why? pciutils with zlib use-flag went stable on x86 Sven Köhler
2007-07-29 16:53 ` Mart Raudsepp
2007-07-29 17:53   ` [gentoo-dev] " Sven Köhler
2007-07-29 17:27 ` [gentoo-dev] " Wulf C. Krueger
2007-07-29 19:15   ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2007-07-29 21:01     ` Seemant Kulleen
2007-07-29 17:36 ` [gentoo-dev] " Carsten Lohrke
2007-07-29 17:45   ` Carsten Lohrke
2007-07-29 18:04     ` [gentoo-dev] " Sven Köhler
2007-07-29 18:24       ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2007-07-29 18:46       ` Steev Klimaszewski
2007-08-02 12:23       ` James Cloos
2007-08-02 13:15         ` Steve Long
2007-08-03  1:39           ` Chris Gianelloni [this message]
2007-08-02 16:26         ` Sven Köhler
2007-08-02 23:19           ` Ryan Hill
2007-08-02 23:50             ` Robin H. Johnson
2007-08-03  0:07               ` Ryan Hill
2007-08-03  1:37         ` Chris Gianelloni

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