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On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 22:12 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> Honestly, I don't think maintainers should be asked to justify |
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> features unless they're actually causing some kind of conflict. |
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> If Robin wants to support USE=static for lvm2, he can do so. If it |
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> somehow caused problems with other packages that would be a different |
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> matter, but I can't see how a static binary should hurt anything. If |
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> he wanted to drop dynamic linking support I'd also be concerned. |
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> However, maintainers should be free to support options even if some |
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> consider them a waste of time. |
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> If Robin wants to satisfy our idle curiosity he can do so, but let's |
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> not hound maintainers willing to do extra work unless they're actually |
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> causing problems. |
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The problem is when that extra work results in a flag on virtual/udev |
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which cannot be satisfied by some of the virtual's implementations (like |
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systemd) and which then leads to several screen lengths of uninformative |
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portage errors facing users who are upgrading to gnome-3.8. |
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