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From: Aisha Tammy <gentoo.dev@aisha.cc>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting rid of USE=unicode
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 12:53:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ec67386f-e2d5-6cf3-90cc-e3f4b678eeb1@aisha.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4133533.UPlyArG6xL@noumea>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-30 17:53 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 [this message]
2020-12-30 18:34   ` Andreas K. Huettel
2020-12-30 23:17     ` Aisha Tammy
2020-12-31  1:16     ` James Cloos

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