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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [gentoo-dev] Peer-to-Peer?
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 08:55:43
Message-Id: 200207191555.32647.pauldv@cs.kun.nl
In Reply to: Fwd: Re: [gentoo-dev] Peer-to-Peer? by Yannick Koehler
1 On Friday 19 July 2002 14:41, Yannick Koehler wrote:
2 > The peer-to-peer system would be interesting for the source package as well
3 > as the binary one. While one may claim that the use/cflags combination is
4 > too big, I, on the other side believe that the vast majority of the user
5 > are using quite similar flags. Also, the variation of the USE flags could
6 > be reduce if the USE file inside the /var/db/pkg folder only contained the
7 > one that was actually making a difference for the output of that package.
8 >
9
10 The problem is not only the use flags, but all libraries that the package is
11 linked against that are not in the use flags. Especially on demand loaded
12 libraries (plugins for example) are difficult since there is no way to
13 determine which ones are used by a program.
14
15 Paul
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18 Paul de Vrieze
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