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 00BCA1382C5 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 23:17:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 45A0EE0A95; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 23:17:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.aisha.cc (mail.aisha.cc [108.61.81.40]) (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 126C8E0A85 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 23:17:44 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=aisha.cc; s=excisionRSA; t=1609370258; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=PpCW2HIGGAoffHYQAlVqiMSCRFIdm4Fnl+LRzdg5Nkg=; b=lq110AIvYKHAD3GwgtYjBffXERTwzE/WfwGO9cG0udJs9HNc1OZ6M1MrD2IaqS/d+gilS6 7LRbUqSJx0dQV+t5MwRROQGeNbYjWJGbKSjYICo3TAS2ng7+SePALTb8dK3N/oRKFR93Iw 2OWY/DRVQzEkqFIc/Bvt5WpGn3mIX1xpY/cgYAkOHn4YdUCYD/6QqyxRv4McLyc3ZpPAxO gDBSxf/z+yMd6Y01iKthQf5KivfsHYsBuGrghEJfYkCy3KJ4DhI1U+zb3EzIyHTIxM0lWM XFQUK5yUwwUUNG/Mda8QCEarEIZmt9P/N5l3KXfUZiuv0X5AmDe6TQ31ThCZXg== Received: from [192.168.1.129] (c-73-215-141-174.hsd1.nj.comcast.net [73.215.141.174]) by mail.aisha.cc (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id f40276aa (TLSv1.3:AEAD-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256:NO) auth=yes user=aisha@aisha.cc; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:17:37 -0500 (EST) To: "Andreas K. Huettel" , gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <4133533.UPlyArG6xL@noumea> <1779248.LH7GnMWURc@noumea> From: Aisha Tammy Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting rid of USE=unicode Message-ID: <414183ad-58d1-e4db-9d64-fa1950e1e120@aisha.cc> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:17:35 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.1 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 In-Reply-To: <1779248.LH7GnMWURc@noumea> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 97498bc5-7580-4944-977d-3f5c2ee1dc56 X-Archives-Hash: 10274ef7152b57d6cdf80fd50bc3a1b2 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.