From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RCbtV-0000wa-8j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:45:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE78121C248; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 18:44:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.viabit.com (mail2.viabit.com [65.246.80.16]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB6F621C243 for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 18:43:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.17.29.10] (unknown [65.213.236.242]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail2.viabit.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 75B1A37B49 for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 14:43:57 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=orlitzky.com; s=mail2; t=1318099437; bh=dmfJOL/j0m9R/TOww/Jfc4AbkhKg8dB80pcqcHUlC7w=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Tx68TkuRl/z3D2Uv/3dhAh9Gh+vT5E6KTU7WA0QMuiG/wpSyRi5CT71IfvI8RBmjL i02WX6tQ99KnlqTOY0RCU0iU/AvpBI56WD/D8tZC372UC35qxvSTAyzOhYa1VOPVsv tRsCjM1P0Axfi/LoVz0BudBNSIrSwo6hg9C4n0SE= Message-ID: <4E9099E9.9050301@orlitzky.com> Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:43:53 -0400 From: Michael Orlitzky User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110920 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.12 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode References: <201110081943.47765.francesco.talamona@know.eu> In-Reply-To: <201110081943.47765.francesco.talamona@know.eu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ba67266a45a9f585b77f217e7c2a16a4 On 10/08/11 13:43, Francesco Talamona wrote: > x11-terms/rxvt-unicode is one of the program I use the most, today I > lost the ability to have multiple tabs and almost panicked. > > I found the solution to have back this essential feature: re-enable > "perl" USE flag for this package and re-emerge. > > Just wanted to share my experience. > HTH I'm going to start a bug-filing campaign against packages like this some day. The only description we ever get for use flag foo is 'enable support for foo', which doesn't tell you anything at all about how it affects a given package. There are a number of packages with perl and python use flags where disabling the use flag will silently disable essential functionality. In my opinion, the use flag should simply be removed rather than have what amounts to USE=make_it_work_properly. I agree with the (default) removal of the perl and python flags: http://blog.jolexa.net/ but you should complain about packages that are basically broken without them.