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Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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>> Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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>>> it should always be enabled with 'kernel_linux' and let the |
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>>> application itself do a runtime check if inotify is available or not |
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>> I think it's great if you are working on such patches for upstreams! |
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> no, i'm talking from experience -- every package I've seen/touched/... |
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> with IUSE="inotify" has had code that made it safe to use also for |
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> non-inotify'd kernels |
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> i'm referring to the mistakes done by maintainers by adding |
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> unnecessarily the flag |
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That was not at all clear, but that's great! Then you could fix those |
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ebuilds. Except there's that rule to not fix bugs in others' ebuilds, |
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so even though you've found a bug you're not allowed to fix it.. :\ |
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//Peter |
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