From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1ErwOX-00023v-SZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:56:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBTBscKa013409; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:54:38 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBTBprYu023093 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:51:53 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1ErwK0-0002Pg-PP for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:51:53 +0000 Received: (qmail 17245 invoked from network); 29 Dec 2005 06:51:44 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 29 Dec 2005 06:51:44 -0500 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing description for the xml global use flag Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:52:09 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 Cc: Stuart Herbert References: <43A72AC4.6020208@gentoo.org> <20051223141336.GB14579@toucan.gentoo.org> <1135856126.9582.9.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> In-Reply-To: <1135856126.9582.9.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512290652.09526.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: f1a6fc8e-c8ef-4698-b9bf-5ab6b2753ef8 X-Archives-Hash: c20b42dea9ef4106d8e00ce465ba3ca3 On Thursday 29 December 2005 06:35, Stuart Herbert wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 14:13 +0000, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > i dont really see this being an issue ... i dont think anyone really > > has 'xml -xml2' or '-xml xml2' ... much more likely they have 'xml > > xml2' or '-xml -xml2' > > I feel really bad that you're going off and making this change during > the holiday season, when IT departments are going to be understaffed at > best. If a security-related release of affected packages had to happen, > your un-announced change could end up breaking production boxes. i already told you in the bug that i wasnt going to be making the major changes over the precious holiday season (changing all ebuilds to IUSE=xml from IUSE=xml2) the only changes that are happening now are in samba/php/pykota/sitecopy ... the samba/pykota maintainer noted that the xml stuff is hardly used, while the sitecopy stuff only exists in the older ebuilds as for your php, the changes affect only dev-lang/php which: - you php guys yourselves have declared dev-lang/php *incomplete* -> thus it is *not* meant to be used on production systems - theres already a friggin billion USE flags in php so anyone upgrading php should know enough to check `emerge -pv` output to see what kind of crazy stuff has changed for who knows what reasons if an IT dept is stupid enough to use such clearly alpha packages on their production systems, not to mention trying to upgrade it "during the holiday season, when IT departments are going to be understaffed at best", then they deserve to get their stupid ass fired -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list