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On Sunday 27 November 2005 22:09, Ned Ludd wrote: |
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> On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 07:58 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 12:46 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> > > Except that no{man,info,doc} are on the to-die list anyway. |
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> > They are very valuable features and quite easy to use without mucking |
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> > with INSTALL_MASK. I'm against this change without some justification. |
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> further investigation shows that you can't simply get rid of these as |
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> several core ebuilds use the feature to control the creation of |
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> packages. A quick grep shows that several ebuilds do stuff like. |
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> has noman FEATURES && do_stuff |
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> openssl/glibc/gcc/dhcp/boa/gdb to name a few that take advantage of the |
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> no{man,info,doc} FEATURES= already. |
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Core packages or not, they are all broken. When the requirement came up, the |
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respective maintainers should have spoken up so that a proper solution could |
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be found. When are the quick hacks going to stop? :| |
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Jason Stubbs |
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