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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [WTH] bash-completion useflag
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:41:32
Message-Id: 201108311640.54908.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [WTH] bash-completion useflag by "Michał Górny"
1 On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 16:22:28 Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:14:08 +0200 Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
3 > > what is the purpose of this fancy useflag, it controlls install of at
4 > > best one or more small sh scripts.
5 > > As we do not bother with the logrotate useflag this thing should fall
6 > > into the same category.
7 > >
8 > > It is mostly added by the eclass for the feature. Which I for example
9 > > didn't notice and forced
10 > > newuse update for all poor souls using libreoffice...
11 >
12 > I already suggested removing it at least twice.
13 >
14 > One issue is that a few packages use it for PDEPs. But I guess making
15 > the eclass non-conditional by default would be a good start.
16
17 installing the files unconditionally does fall into the logrotate/xinetd
18 category, so it should get punted. but people should not end up with the
19 depends installed all the time.
20 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [WTH] bash-completion useflag Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>