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On Monday 27 February 2006 22:34, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> Yup. It's a huge policy violation being passed off as a feature. See |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap= |
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>1 in the paragraph starting "Occasionally, ebuilds will have conflicting |
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> USE flags for functionality.". |
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If that was the only consideration in this case I would agree with you. I |
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do however also see Stuart's point on use_with. While it is by itself a |
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horible kludge, I agree that it's not really proper design to check for |
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all kinds of flags (a changing set) to verify that php was built with a |
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certain feature. |
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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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