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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.26 and changes with SunRPC, libtirpc, ntirpc, libnsl (NIS and friends), ...
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 15:45:26
Message-Id: 5540421.04q4fjgThb@porto
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.26 and changes with SunRPC, libtirpc, ntirpc, libnsl (NIS and friends), ... by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 > My suggestion for an ideal implementation would be that any package that
2 > uses RPC defines useflags:
3 > sunrpc - build against glibc
4 > libtirpc - build against net-libs/libtirpc
5 > ntirpc - build against net-libs/ntirpc
6 > with
7 > REQUIRED_USE="^^ ( sunrpc libtirpc ntirpc )"
8 > If rpc support is optional with useflag rpc, then this becomes
9 > REQUIRED_USE="rpc? ( ^^ ( sunrpc libtirpc ntirpc ) )"
10
11 ... or the same in blue with a USE_EXPAND named RPC_PROVIDER; maybe that is
12 cleaner.
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15 --
16 Andreas K. Hüttel
17 dilfridge@g.o
18 Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)