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On 6/6/12 10:26 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> After reading: |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419795 |
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> I think that would be interesting to try to not get grep build with pcre |
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> support by default, specially after reading "man grep" and seeing that |
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> its support is tagged as experimental: |
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This is more a reason to mask USE=pcre for grep, rather than taking |
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global action, where pcre may have different meaning or status for other |
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packages. |
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> Also, at least of my systems there are only a few installed packages |
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> with this USE flag and, then, I am unsure about real advantage of having |
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> it enabled by default :-/ |
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This is a possible reason for dropping it, but I'm not sure. What |
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exactly uses it and why? |
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Paweł |