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From: Steve Long <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev]  Re: why? pciutils with zlib use-flag went stable on x86
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:15:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8slcv$9e2$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3ir7yqg4c.fsf_-_@lugabout.jhcloos.org

James Cloos wrote:
> The pciutils ebuild should be re-engineered to use separate USE flags
> for linking to libz and compressing the database.
++
It may be what upstream (pciutils) do by default, but no other distro ships
with compressed ids for the reasons you outline (and you can't mmap the
file). It breaks a default desktop installation (aiui) so it really
shouldn't use a default system-wide USE flag, but a local one. Anyone who
really wants it can set it, and everyone else's machines will still work.
As Mr Gianelloni spelt out on bugzilla[1]:
"when you install from stage3, then immediately type "emerge [blah]", I
would expect it to work.  If it does not, then it is a failure in the
ebuild and a bug... it is your responsility to ensure that your package is
not broken with a default installation."

I don't know if that's policy or not, but imo it should be.

On a wider note, it seemed to me from the bug to be more of a dispute
between HAL upstream and pciutils upstream. I wonder how many such disputes
are actually resolved within Gentoo, since it seems the kind of thing that
would show up most in a source distro.
(And as such shows another reason why Gentoo is so important to the wider
community. Certainly devs from other projects i've met on IRC who use
Gentoo seem a lot less stressed than those on other distros.. ;)

[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120088#c3


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  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-02 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-29 16:44 [gentoo-dev] why? pciutils with zlib use-flag went stable on x86 Sven Köhler
2007-07-29 16:53 ` Mart Raudsepp
2007-07-29 17:53   ` [gentoo-dev] " Sven Köhler
2007-07-29 17:27 ` [gentoo-dev] " Wulf C. Krueger
2007-07-29 19:15   ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2007-07-29 21:01     ` Seemant Kulleen
2007-07-29 17:36 ` [gentoo-dev] " Carsten Lohrke
2007-07-29 17:45   ` Carsten Lohrke
2007-07-29 18:04     ` [gentoo-dev] " Sven Köhler
2007-07-29 18:24       ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2007-07-29 18:46       ` Steev Klimaszewski
2007-08-02 12:23       ` James Cloos
2007-08-02 13:15         ` Steve Long [this message]
2007-08-03  1:39           ` Chris Gianelloni
2007-08-02 16:26         ` Sven Köhler
2007-08-02 23:19           ` Ryan Hill
2007-08-02 23:50             ` Robin H. Johnson
2007-08-03  0:07               ` Ryan Hill
2007-08-03  1:37         ` Chris Gianelloni

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