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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: mgorny@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: new global use flag: luajit
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 14:34:52
Message-Id: 20160714143432.GA14586@linux1.gaikai.biz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: new global use flag: luajit by "Michał Górny"
1 On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 04:15:42PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 09:05:57 -0500
3 > William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > All,
6 > >
7 > > there are currently 19 packages in the tree that have the luajit use
8 > > flag, and I am planning on adding 10 more.
9 > >
10 > > I think this use flag should be global with the following description:
11 > >
12 > > "use the lua just-in-time compiler for lua support"
13 > >
14 > > If there are no objections, I'll start the transition on or after 17
15 > > Jul.
16 >
17 > I'd rather avoid adding more of this until we figure out what to do
18 > about multiple Lua versions. The Lua5.1/5.2 split is still stuck
19 > nowhere, and luajit is yet another variant to handle.
20
21 If we don't do this, the only way to add luajit support to dev-lua/busted is to
22 propegate the local use flag into all of its dependencies [1], and that is
23 what I'm trying to avoid.
24
25 William
26
27 [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584694

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: new global use flag: luajit Raymond Jennings <shentino@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: new global use flag: luajit Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o>