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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: scarabeus@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [WTH] bash-completion useflag
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:21:42
Message-Id: 20110831222228.4aa8ad0e@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [WTH] bash-completion useflag by "Tomáš Chvátal"
1 On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:14:08 +0200
2 Tomáš Chvátal <scarabeus@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > what is the purpose of this fancy useflag, it controlls install of at
5 > best one or more small sh scripts.
6 > As we do not bother with the logrotate useflag this thing should fall
7 > into the same category.
8 >
9 > It is mostly added by the eclass for the feature. Which I for example
10 > didn't notice and forced
11 > newuse update for all poor souls using libreoffice...
12
13 I already suggested removing it at least twice.
14
15 One issue is that a few packages use it for PDEPs. But I guess making
16 the eclass non-conditional by default would be a good start.
17
18
19 --
20 Best regards,
21 Michał Górny

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