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On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 11:14, Robin H.Johnson wrote: |
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> I've almost completed the new PHP eclasses for mod_php and CLI php. |
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> I just wanted to discuss a possible new global USE flag. |
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> informix - Provides support for IBM Informix server |
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> This would compliment the current 'oci8' for Oracle. |
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> Once we also get other packages for informix, then will greatly increase |
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> our appeal to the enterprise market :-). |
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In my opinion USE flags should stay local as long as there's not |
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multiple uses for it currently available (or pending) in the tree . I |
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don't know if that's the case here (taking into consideration php and |
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mod_php are basically the same package). |
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> Previously, Tal (coredumb) made enquries about the a memlimit flag on |
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> -core. (Subject: '[gentoo-core] Memory limit useflag' Date: 23? Apr). |
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> Nobody at all responded to the message, so I'm going to just repeat the |
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> just of it here |
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> This was originally in response to bug #18890. PHP supports a memory |
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> limit option that puts some memory usage limits into place (similar to |
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> ulimit). |
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> We want to push this to a USE flag as it does cause a visible |
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> performance hit for the increase in security it provides. |
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> From a little research on Google, it seems that both TeX and PostGres |
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> support memory limit stuff to some degree (I did not dig much beyond the |
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> first page linked off google). |
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wouldn't be a general security type of flag better ? In general it seems |
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like the sort of thing flagged. |
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> Given the utter lack of response to Tal's previous email to -core, if I |
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> don't get any answer on these by saturday, I'll look at including them |
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> myself as they are needed for the new PHP ebuilds. |
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see it like this, other devs don't deal with your packages and may be |
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careful to give their opinion about something they haven't looked into |
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(i know i am). |
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In general i was looking trough USE flags list, things like icc and |
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jikes and memlimit maybe, do they really belong in use.desc ? Aren't USE |
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flags defined as compile time enabling or disabling of certain features |
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in an application, i guess memlimit fits the description, but icc and |
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jikes don't, theyre compile time options that have no direct effect on |
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the functionality of the app. Shouldnt they have their own file, |
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removing some of the burden of the use.desc file ? |
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- foser |
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