From: Aisha Tammy <gentoo.dev@aisha.cc>
To: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>, gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting rid of USE=unicode
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:17:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <414183ad-58d1-e4db-9d64-fa1950e1e120@aisha.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1779248.LH7GnMWURc@noumea>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-30 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-30 17:46 [gentoo-dev] Getting rid of USE=unicode Andreas K. Huettel
2020-12-30 17:53 ` Aisha Tammy
2020-12-30 18:34 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2020-12-30 23:17 ` Aisha Tammy [this message]
2020-12-31 1:16 ` James Cloos
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