[gentoo-dev] Getting rid of USE=unicode

[gentoo-dev] Getting rid of USE=unicode

[Andreas K. Huettel]

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Hi all, 

since utf8 encoding is everywhere by now, and since switching the useflag 
unicode off without taking precautions is a way to hose your installation, I 
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 
(and if necessary fix depstrings)

3) at some point the flag is gone

Opinions?

Cheers, 
Andreas

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Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer 
(council, qa, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting rid of USE=unicode

[Aisha Tammy]

On 12/30/20 12:46 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> since utf8 encoding is everywhere by now, and since switching the useflag 
> unicode off without taking precautions is a way to hose your installation, I 
> 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 
> (and if necessary fix depstrings)
> 
> 3) at some point the flag is gone
> 
> Opinions?
> 
> Cheers, 
> Andreas
> 

Yes, this sounds nice.
What about packages which rely on/give unicode support outside of this flag?
Like the global icu flag, which supposedly needs dev-libs/icu ?

Cheers,
Aisha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting rid of USE=unicode

[Andreas K. Huettel]

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Am Mittwoch, 30. Dezember 2020, 19:53:25 EET schrieb Aisha Tammy:
> 
> Yes, this sounds nice.
> What about packages which rely on/give unicode support outside of this flag?
> Like the global icu flag, which supposedly needs dev-libs/icu ?
> 

Hmmm... good point. I thought too simple.

1) We want to enable unicode unconditionally whereever that is possible 
without much impact.
2) If that pulls in large libraries like icu, a useflag remains useful.

So maybe instead of any use.forcing we should just go through the ebuilds and 

a) reduce the number of occurences of IUSE=unicode as much as possible
b) switch to IUSE=icu or similar where that makes sense

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Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer 
(council, qa, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting rid of USE=unicode

[Aisha Tammy]

On 12/30/20 1:34 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 30. Dezember 2020, 19:53:25 EET schrieb Aisha Tammy:
>>
>> Yes, this sounds nice.
>> What about packages which rely on/give unicode support outside of this flag?
>> Like the global icu flag, which supposedly needs dev-libs/icu ?
>>
> 
> Hmmm... good point. I thought too simple.
> 
> 1) We want to enable unicode unconditionally whereever that is possible 
> without much impact.
> 2) If that pulls in large libraries like icu, a useflag remains useful.
> 
> So maybe instead of any use.forcing we should just go through the ebuilds and 
> 
> a) reduce the number of occurences of IUSE=unicode as much as possible
> b) switch to IUSE=icu or similar where that makes sense
> 

dilfridge++

Sounds awesome.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting rid of USE=unicode

[James Cloos]

there are not too many packages to look at:

:; git grep -P IUSE.+unicode.*\"|awk -F/ '{print $1 "/" $2}'|sort -u|wc -l
82

so it should ot take too uch effort.

and it definitely would be worth it!

-JimC
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