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On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:14:08 +0200
Tomáš Chvátal <scarabeus@g.o> wrote:
> what is the purpose of this fancy useflag, it controlls install of at
> best one or more small sh scripts.
> As we do not bother with the logrotate useflag this thing should fall
> into the same category.
>
> It is mostly added by the eclass for the feature. Which I for example
> didn't notice and forced
> newuse update for all poor souls using libreoffice...
I already suggested removing it at least twice.
One issue is that a few packages use it for PDEPs. But I guess making
the eclass non-conditional by default would be a good start.
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
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