From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IGaZe-0001yr-Dt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:18:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l72DHfUe031521; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 13:17:41 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l72DFeR3029140 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 13:15:41 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2045065520 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 13:15:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 0.906 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.906 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.595, BAYES_50=0.001, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=1.5] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id l3fI5s1lr1Dc for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 13:15:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C29E66519F for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 13:15:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IGaWU-0004dh-7a for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:15:26 +0200 Received: from 82.153.65.134 ([82.153.65.134]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:15:26 +0200 Received: from slong by 82.153.65.134 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:15:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Steve Long Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: why? pciutils with zlib use-flag went stable on x86 Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:15:19 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200707291936.57220.carlo@gentoo.org> <200707291945.22728.carlo@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.153.65.134 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 9cf3a19e-7bc6-4a06-92a0-900d89025665 X-Archives-Hash: fbe1e63f7231f1d56e56914a348153b3 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list