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On Saturday 04 March 2006 00:29, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 23:14:41 +0000 "Stuart Herbert" |
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> <stuart.herbert@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> | If we're going to do this, then at least we should be implementing a |
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> | consistent standard across all ebuilds. F.ex, when SSL and TLS |
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> | conflict, we should have a standard saying that all ebuilds will |
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> | consistenly favour one over the other. That's much more deterministic |
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> | than having some ebuilds prefer SSL, and others prefer TLS (for |
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> | example). |
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> And what of gtk vs qt, where for many packages one is clearly the |
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> preferred choice, but which one this is varies between packages? Do |
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> *you* know which GUI is the best option for gvim and why? |
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Than say in the policy "For the choice TLS vs SSL choose SSL. For the choice |
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GTK vs QT choose the upstream preferred; if there is none, choose QT" (Don't |
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pin me on the choices in this example) |
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> Heck, it's hard enough figuring out a usable set of USE flags for PHP. |
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> If we started dieing for the three zillion or so mutually independent |
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> GUI options in gvim7 users would never actually be able to figure out |
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> how to install the thing... |
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The problem is that these flags are dependent. Bailing out on independent |
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useflags is not needed. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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