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* Re: [gentoo-dev]  why? pciutils with zlib use-flag went stable on x86
  @ 2007-07-29 16:53 99% ` Mart Raudsepp
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From: Mart Raudsepp @ 2007-07-29 16:53 UTC (permalink / raw
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On P, 2007-07-29 at 18:44 +0200, Sven Köhler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> so today, pciutils-2.2.4-r3 went stable on x86.
> It's a known issue, that pciutils compiled with zlib use-flag turned on
> (which is default) doesn't work with the version of hal, which is
> currently stable on x86.
> 
> So at the moment, hal-0.5.9-r1 is stable on x86. It went stable weeks or
> even months ago. Now, pciutils-2.2.4-r3 is compiled with zlib use-flag
> turned on. There are now warning, errors, or any other messages about
> the zlib use-flag - well, until you recompile hal.
> 
> The hal-ebuild checks, whether pciutils has been built with or without
> the zlib use-flag. But what is this check worth, if people have already
> upgraded hal weeks ago and the uncompatibility between pciutils and hal
> is now unnoticed?
> 
> 
> Why did you provocate this breakage?
> 
> 
> This is not a good idea, IMHO.

No. And many gave up getting this sensible again.
As is, the default USE flags for a desktop profile lead to a compilation
failure when unattended due to this, which is very very bad.

At one point I thought I will simply not stabilize GNOME-2.18 until
pciutils is fixed to follow what upstream wants, what most other
maintainers wish, and what is sensible to do. I see no reason whatsoever
for this gzipping, not even for embedded devices as a gzipped file can't
be mmapped.
Then I realized GNOME-2.16 compilation for a fresh system with desktop
profiles is broken now also anyhow.

-- 
Mart Raudsepp
Gentoo Developer
Mail: leio@gentoo.org
Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio

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