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From: Michael Weber <xmw@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Base profile changes should be announced/discussed on this list.
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:58:51
Message-Id: 51F8EDDD.8030502@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Base profile changes should be announced/discussed on this list. by Walter Dnes
1 On 07/31/2013 11:53 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
2 > Hold on a minute. There is a *MAJOR* difference between "gpm" the USE
3 > flag, and sys-libs/gpm the mouse server.
4 [...]
5 > If there was a move afoot to remove sys-libs/gpm from the install ISO,
6 > I would be part of the crowd up in arms about this.
7
8 It does affect the presence of sys-libs/gpm in stage3 tarballs.
9 It gets pulled into stage3 via sys-libs/ncurses[gpm] [1].
10 Which will no longer be the case, since sys-libs/gpm is not in @system.
11
12 About additional effects, see [2].
13
14 [1]
15 http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-5.9-r2.ebuild?revision=1.17&view=markup
16
17 [2] michael@x catalyst 1 % equery hasuse gpm
18 * Searching for USE flag gpm ...
19 [IP-] [ ] app-editors/emacs-24.3-r2:24
20 [IP-] [ ] app-editors/gvim-7.3.1214:0
21 [IP-] [ ] app-editors/vim-7.3.1214:0
22 [IP-] [ ] app-misc/mc-4.8.7:0
23 [IP-] [ ] media-libs/aalib-1.4_rc5:0
24 [IP-] [ ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r2:5
25 [IP-] [ ] www-client/elinks-0.12_pre5-r2:0
26 [IP-] [ ] www-client/links-2.7:2
27 [IP-] [ ] www-client/w3m-0.5.3-r1:0
28
29 --
30 Michael Weber
31 Gentoo Developer
32 web: https://xmw.de/
33 mailto: Michael Weber <xmw@g.o>

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