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On 03/28/2013 02:56 PM, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> On 03/27/2013 05:52 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: |
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>> Le mardi 26 mars 2013 à 22:28 +0100, Denis M. a écrit : |
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>>> On 03/21/2013 02:09 PM, Denis M. wrote: |
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>>>> Hello, I'd want to ask if it's possible and a good idea to add |
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>>>> HEXCHAT_PLUGINS to the global USE_EXPAND var. |
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>>>> HEXCHAT_PLUGINS has been created as a user (and maintainer) request |
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>>>> in bug 461972 [1] to handle easily the net-irc/hexchat plugins that |
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>>>> this package offers, which are: checksum, doat, fishlim and sysinfo. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> The purposed ebuild can be found on the bug's attached files list. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Regards, |
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>>>> Denis M. (Phr33d0m) |
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>>>> |
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>>>> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461972 |
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>>> Bump. |
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>>> |
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>>> Hi again, could I get a decisive answer on this please? |
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>> That does not sound like a bad idea, however I wonder how this extends |
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>> exactly if we start to do this for ebuilds which install a couple of |
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>> plugins behind a few regular USE flags nowadays like rhythmbox, abiword, |
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>> etc. |
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> The only potential problem that I can think of is that it bloats the |
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> environment with an extra variable that's exported to all ebuilds. With |
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> older kernels, environment bloat triggered E2BIG errors, as reported in |
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> this bug: |
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> |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262647 |
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Thanks for your replies. As I commented on the hexchat bug, I've decided |
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to use plain USE flags like plugin-<...> to handle this situation. |
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Also, now I have a better understanding of when to use USE_EXPAND. |
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Regards, |
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Denis M. (Phr33d0m) |
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