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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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>>> |
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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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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262647 |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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