From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 60DF61382C5 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 17:47:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE56FE0B00; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 17:47:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A679E09F5 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 17:47:03 +0000 (UTC) From: "Andreas K. Huettel" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Getting rid of USE=unicode Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 19:46:44 +0200 Message-ID: <4133533.UPlyArG6xL@noumea> Organization: Gentoo Linux 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5304606.ZASKD2KPVS"; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 5079564b-ab10-4ebe-99e3-a9b84446d136 X-Archives-Hash: 19812d9c2f14ca20c0cde3317b390899 --nextPart5304606.ZASKD2KPVS Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; protected-headers="v1" From: "Andreas K. Huettel" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Getting rid of USE=unicode Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 19:46:44 +0200 Message-ID: <4133533.UPlyArG6xL@noumea> Organization: Gentoo Linux Hi all,=20 since utf8 encoding is everywhere by now, and since switching the useflag=20 unicode off without taking precautions is a way to hose your installation, = I=20 would propose to medium-term get rid of this flag. Suggestion: 1) use.force unicode now/soon in the default profiles 2) step by step, modify ebuilds to enable the functionality unconditionally= =20 (and if necessary fix depstrings) 3) at some point the flag is gone Opinions? Cheers,=20 Andreas =2D-=20 Andreas K. H=FCttel dilfridge@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer=20 (council, qa, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice) --nextPart5304606.ZASKD2KPVS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEE2dlecvcVU8/ThuQ/jJJgxvbXoxAFAl/svQQACgkQjJJgxvbX oxDxDRAAmvJ7nXn44z59y9c1fbhCVX+e8gXl+YRVI3u4ly5Wuelfz59tzLFN/1fB dj7X+lbTF2a6k7CdDpaO9cRu0gSMgyVr4Sr6IBjnmGZM+zCUJauJv23tRf4Ljftn lBtwPHm/XD7UN9t8aKw885PE1BR3guILSHXQaKKGwBe/6hr08GVcsuJQ/xOZGRFL GALrhRWSMczApegn/FaripJa+pO9BL7BhHzrz0AfEEeXuB3RddUqLDCY8IHKTlSw DlAhqu2LgTaVtjt7F2EW9Sd5J3GLHjE2+5/7ZGcs37aoaSIxGm2RNrhyO+53J8UF Y5lzLMci3UC5BNBAnThzR/3yhXNzdppJf8Z2hfACrnn8Aq4eEu+Poj1vw30Wb/6l wy9B3orhdbA002mhuFWKuuISpXeSPDZwSJEy/1BJOmK2EmA0V0YTcMF/Gh2FNKH9 8UIS+ji4QqkIe4Q2e5e0N+Ub9UpuQUHU1ONB10XBD5UClLQlOW4LPwDntZrdNrKv rlbD0I+s9uMG/Ntn2Gnoxnn99IsOQMgNYDa27hMekxhD+gL8LcCPcEVBv3Kg8MM4 c/+fZkvz8fB+Mkx7Bw2OGtI0rnyFhtVzpbf6jSxCxE1iMAoxNy+FqMvmCh88Sciz cXU/Pfqxpiz51LLMMoMI3iLG1YXjcd5CX9KyeeQ3lR6r6TsuKiE= =+tt1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5304606.ZASKD2KPVS--