From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ScLNJ-0001Lv-Ui for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:54:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6DB8E05EC; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 18:54:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DCB3E0587 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 18:53:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D27AF1B4028 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 18:53:30 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion to drop "pcre" from default enabled USE flags in profiles Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 14:53:30 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.4.0; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <1338971171.2706.2.camel@belkin4> <201206061323.09670.vapier@gentoo.org> <1339006007.2706.51.camel@belkin4> In-Reply-To: <1339006007.2706.51.camel@belkin4> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2215881.W6nS3iS4WI"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201206061453.31258.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 57974658-2cfe-40a8-b019-c8fc10c26cf9 X-Archives-Hash: 1bbccf719ffcbd6a5a0c75a45352006a --nextPart2215881.W6nS3iS4WI Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wednesday 06 June 2012 14:06:47 Pacho Ramos wrote: > The problem is that grep keeps linked against libpcre and it can cause > problems like pointed in referred bug report, and it's really risky as > people can have their portage completely broken for example when libpcre > is downgraded for some reason. That doesn't sound like a good *default* > behavior for me there are plenty of core tools that can be broken by other packages forcing= =20 broken behavior like library downgrades. and FEATURES=3Dpreserve-libs woul= d=20 gracefully handle this. off the top of my head, lib dependencies that can bring a system down: - bash links against ncurses & readline - sed links against acl - coreutils links against acl/libcap/selinux/gmp - grep links against pcre (with at least USE=3Dacl being a profile default) so highlighting the grep/pcre dep doesn't seem like it accomplishes much =2Dmike --nextPart2215881.W6nS3iS4WI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJPz6crAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBPSsP/1x9SyKp/fa3FlfrueU5N01X UCHP/xdauAAq/8gHkB+koDYQ3jsMtf0vPBML09qJOYgZkeoCHa+P9mFqaWFwVZ4U uk3pvrHt4z/7eA+4jWeU2raII1aIiAAyHmiUQ62Qo3GbRXSXaAvJIj9LYC2NSeRL j9Tyh7pc7SROZWrxfx+mBbIflSSsG+aVUccfiUVZWPu0eSYR4rgtXUpXRq2xyfHv 6d8grZ2WdEPyCEBFF6gDrqxLh46ugG74FVfAxfWazfCCLw7Gw8r2v4S/hSlmXC8o we9UlC6z5q7uSLSCUbPDkVdi78znG5KB4BVPbLFY4mQ9bMDu19NnoB9mo+vpzqt/ uaq7wSKoMnuBIeoYmdw7TveB9QnHm56TrlJfedKhKhjUZDMqXVgvjOV0te29scJO K4qvTzlI3EWJv2TWjQn8LrZpwbEodT341OVcqrSEJl2u+kSARAB1pcOTlFqYUSaU uYvd7cXx6aBgvf/eObz0Bf3d2IHYh2Plo5WW/YlAW300MzmsI5XDReI0kRbYIM1l 5obAuwYQvxiLouYWI2Y72+KhpsGXPh4tIbKXR9E+8GR6KD2vn4sX6SCTc11acPLG j1FRUxRz3xbAhxghOK4vBLMwbzk+Tnui7Sux287jrTovPblxFVRYfFaT+v1n0+Wk I5+k5ZuJxQZoTGcUoeQL =effm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2215881.W6nS3iS4WI--