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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Base profile changes should be announced/discussed on this list.
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 00:10:31
Message-Id: 20130801001015.GA27364@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Base profile changes should be announced/discussed on this list. by Michael Weber
1 On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:58:37PM +0200, Michael Weber wrote
2 > On 07/31/2013 11:53 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
3 > > Hold on a minute. There is a *MAJOR* difference between "gpm" the USE
4 > > flag, and sys-libs/gpm the mouse server.
5 > [...]
6 > > If there was a move afoot to remove sys-libs/gpm from the install ISO,
7 > > I would be part of the crowd up in arms about this.
8 >
9 > It does affect the presence of sys-libs/gpm in stage3 tarballs.
10 > It gets pulled into stage3 via sys-libs/ncurses[gpm] [1].
11 > Which will no longer be the case, since sys-libs/gpm is not in @system.
12 >
13 > About additional effects, see [2].
14 >
15 > [1]
16 > http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-5.9-r2.ebuild?revision=1.17&view=markup
17 >
18 > [2] michael@x catalyst 1 % equery hasuse gpm
19 > * Searching for USE flag gpm ...
20 > [IP-] [ ] app-editors/emacs-24.3-r2:24
21 > [IP-] [ ] app-editors/gvim-7.3.1214:0
22 > [IP-] [ ] app-editors/vim-7.3.1214:0
23 > [IP-] [ ] app-misc/mc-4.8.7:0
24 > [IP-] [ ] media-libs/aalib-1.4_rc5:0
25 > [IP-] [ ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r2:5
26 > [IP-] [ ] www-client/elinks-0.12_pre5-r2:0
27 > [IP-] [ ] www-client/links-2.7:2
28 > [IP-] [ ] www-client/w3m-0.5.3-r1:0
29 >
30 > --
31 > Michael Weber
32 > Gentoo Developer
33 > web: https://xmw.de/
34 > mailto: Michael Weber <xmw@g.o>
35 >
36
37 --
38 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
39 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications