Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion to drop "pcre" from default enabled USE flags in profiles

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

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El mié, 06-06-2012 a las 10:37 +0200, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." escribió:
> On 6/6/12 10:26 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > After reading:
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419795
> > 
> > I think that would be interesting to try to not get grep build with pcre
> > support by default, specially after reading "man grep" and seeing that
> > its support is tagged as experimental:
> 
> This is more a reason to mask USE=pcre for grep, rather than taking
> global action, where pcre may have different meaning or status for other
> packages.
> 

I thought about that option at first time, but later I checked grep
ChangeLog and saw "pcre" USE flag was dropped time ago but later readded
due user request.

> > Also, at least of my systems there are only a few installed packages
> > with this USE flag and, then, I am unsure about real advantage of having
> > it enabled by default :-/
> 
> This is a possible reason for dropping it, but I'm not sure. What
> exactly uses it and why?
> 
> Paweł
> 

In my laptop, just now, only a few:
$ equery hasuse pcre
 * Searching for USE flag pcre ... 
[IP-] [  ] app-admin/syslog-ng-3.2.5:0
[IP-] [  ] dev-lang/swig-2.0.4-r1:0
[IP-] [  ] dev-libs/rasqal-0.9.28:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-apps/grep-2.9:0

but running it with "-p" shows me there are a lot that I don't know if
their support deserves to be enabled by default :(

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