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| From: | Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o> | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Better handling of USE flags to enable/disable system libraries | ||
| Date: | Tue, 28 May 2013 23:56:14 | ||
| Message-Id: | CAGfcS_kwf2TtuBRVF1T7hPjvArY1BkMqaHGpjXvkBYTazcMBww@mail.gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Better handling of USE flags to enable/disable system libraries by David Carlos Manuelda |
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| 1 | On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:01 PM, David Carlos Manuelda |
| 2 | <stormbyte@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 3 | > Ok, thinking it better I agree, that having them use system libraries is far |
| 4 | > better, but why then those affected ebuilds have corresponding USE disabled by |
| 5 | > default? |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Probably because the use of those system libraries is experimental. |
| 8 | If they worked reliably most likely the maintainer would have stripped |
| 9 | the bundled library completely and not made it optional. |
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| 11 | Rich |