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From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta@...>
Subject: Re: Python expat USE flag
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:27:47 +0100
2008-12-28 05:23:12 Jesus Rivero napisaƂ(a):
> Hello everyone,
> 
> ~    A while ago there was a discussion about the new expat USE flag in
> dev-lang/python. The flag was first introduced by Vapier on December 08th.
> 
> ~    While having expat USE flag may be of great use for embedded
> systems or in bootstrapping/releasing phases, it is not so in both in
> Gentoo related projects and software in general. Vapier fixed this by
> making the USE flag +expat.
> 
> ~    Now, the issue is many people, me included, don't like that name
> for the USE flag for a variety of reasons one of them being that expat
> doesn't correlate directly with the use of xml in python provided that
> developers may choose another lib for handling xml other than that, like
> libxml2.
> 
> ~    I want to change the USE flag to something else if people don't
> like 'build' and make it 'minimal' or 'embedded' as Nirbheek suggested/
> <mailto:nirbheek.chauhan@...>//. /I think that  is more suitable
> to the problem at hand. I don't want to start a silly fuss over this,
> just that there are some version bumps I'd like to make, but I would
> like to have a consensus on this before I make the bumps.
> 
> ~   What do you think?

+1 for 'minimal'.

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