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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Globalization of some USE flags etc.
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:03:58
Message-Id: 1157569137.8431.16.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Globalization of some USE flags etc. by arfrever
1 On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 17:56 +0200, arfrever wrote:
2 > I would like to suggest to globalize cairo and openexr USE flags because they are used by enough amount of packages.
3 >
4 > Also I have got a question about udev USE flag.
5 > udev USE flag is now local USE flag. In 4 cases this flag has description "Enable udev rules file installation" and in 2 cases - "Install as an udev helper instead of a hotplug helper".
6 >
7 > As `find /usr/portage/profiles/ -name make.defaults -exec grep -l udev {} \;` says udev USE flag is set defaultly in the following files:
8 >
9 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/alpha/2006.0/make.defaults
10 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/alpha/no-nptl/make.defaults
11 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/alpha/2006.1/make.defaults
12 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0/make.defaults
13 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/make.defaults
14 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/sparc/sparc32/2006.0/make.defaults
15 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/sparc/sparc32/2006.1/make.defaults
16 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2006.0/make.defaults
17 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2006.1/make.defaults
18 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/ppc/ppc32/2006.0/make.defaults
19 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/ppc/ppc32/2006.1/make.defaults
20 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/ppc/ppc64/2006.0/64bit-userland/make.defaults
21 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/ppc/ppc64/2006.0/32bit-userland/make.defaults
22 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/ppc/ppc64/2006.0/multilib/make.defaults
23 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/ppc/ppc64/2006.1/64bit-userland/make.defaults
24 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/ppc/ppc64/2006.1/32bit-userland/make.defaults
25 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/ppc/ppc64/2006.1/multilib/make.defaults
26 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.1/make.defaults
27 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/ia64/2006.0/make.defaults
28 >
29 > Is udev USE flag set there because of necessity of "Enabling udev rules file installation" or because of necessity of "Installing as an udev helper instead of a hotplug helper"?
30
31 Actually, because of both. We definitely want the udev files installed.
32 Truthfully, they should probably be installed by default.
33
34 --
35 Chris Gianelloni
36 Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
37 x86 Architecture Team
38 Games - Developer
39 Gentoo Linux

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