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