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On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 14:15 +0100, Steve Long wrote: |
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> James Cloos wrote: |
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> > The pciutils ebuild should be re-engineered to use separate USE flags |
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> > for linking to libz and compressing the database. |
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> ++ |
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> It may be what upstream (pciutils) do by default, but no other distro ships |
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> with compressed ids for the reasons you outline (and you can't mmap the |
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> file). It breaks a default desktop installation (aiui) so it really |
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> shouldn't use a default system-wide USE flag, but a local one. Anyone who |
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> really wants it can set it, and everyone else's machines will still work. |
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> As Mr Gianelloni spelt out on bugzilla[1]: |
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> "when you install from stage3, then immediately type "emerge [blah]", I |
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> would expect it to work. If it does not, then it is a failure in the |
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> ebuild and a bug... it is your responsility to ensure that your package is |
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> not broken with a default installation." |
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That isn't policy, as much as I would like it to be. |
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Also, both hal and zlib are in USE in the default profiles, so it does |
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work out of the box right now. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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