From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1B3B1381F3 for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 23:56:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 073BBE0B12; Tue, 28 May 2013 23:56:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vb0-f46.google.com (mail-vb0-f46.google.com [209.85.212.46]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 207B7E0B08 for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 23:55:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vb0-f46.google.com with SMTP id 11so5698555vbe.19 for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 16:55:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=5MsJQWCu23t/oXlulz88ilpDG1Hm4mDzo5jiSXl0stU=; b=An1RlAzzPl1In9YFbV9QkBj0p1HlIKawmRy/buDY10oUjHdAvnnhDfWM7OICB5TbBD 1tCVDhHSYqA40shD8HNcQOqzcjCatHdp5OJWI91WfoK47z1NnS6sZeDXKkgeGofJzEOE UgdSyvMY43gu5tTSXoltj3slwjrftVG6syo6JcBn4OuaDW8xhVQ7/5BJTkBJYiwDdFhr VWtrHL1lyfgb/AR3hTVyaYg2slphLwjIfJQ6ae/t4mCVGiXr74VkI0HJK+9xhXcBahCY VDrEp+DuYoo+j/Lpbd+mtbC+zCPiXl8EtidBt1WrfEfMrcjhDd8xuT0QKq/V7JmVFsgA 3Agw== 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.171.108 with SMTP id at12mr88255vdc.67.1369785359327; Tue, 28 May 2013 16:55:59 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.168.233 with HTTP; Tue, 28 May 2013 16:55:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1430868.1g3PJOlj7u@darkness> References: <1473793.jjmSZnls7x@darkness> <20130528195354.11512dfc@gentoo.org> <201305281403.53906.vapier@gentoo.org> <1430868.1g3PJOlj7u@darkness> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 19:55:59 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: fsAEpa3wQo4cPTD3oWwtFtRb9Xg Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Better handling of USE flags to enable/disable system libraries From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: d38d330c-f8c1-4a6c-a7ce-661af09e44d2 X-Archives-Hash: 56a55d9e9cff07e2e3acd96c770156e3 On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:01 PM, David Carlos Manuelda wrote: > Ok, thinking it better I agree, that having them use system libraries is far > better, but why then those affected ebuilds have corresponding USE disabled by > default? Probably because the use of those system libraries is experimental. If they worked reliably most likely the maintainer would have stripped the bundled library completely and not made it optional. Rich