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From: Christian Faulhammer <opfer@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag transition: tetex and latex
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:18:57
Message-Id: 20071110151624.717eacfb@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag transition: tetex and latex by Alexis Ballier
1 Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>:
2
3 > Hi,
4 >
5 > > Yes, we should introduce tex, latex and kpathsea USE flags.
6 > > Anyone?
7 > +1 for latex & kpathsea. How/when do we start ? :) I'd say start
8 > moving useflags on a per package basis, making them local for now.
9 > Once there are enough, let us move to a global one. Once this is
10 > finished, let us deprecate the tetex useflag.
11
12 Ok, Gnuplot is being done by me and we will do it gradually...maybe
13 open a tracker bug to collect all this, as have been done with
14 USE=tcltk/tcl/tk, qt/qt3/qt4 and gtk/gtk2?
15 <URL:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137785>
16 First, collect all packages having latex/tetex/tex USE flags and check
17 if actions are needed, then cc maintainers and give them some weeks to
18 rework it.
19
20 > +0.5 for tex: it's a good idea, but I dont know about any package
21 > using only tex and not latex (and where it would be optional).
22 > Perhaps I'm wrong there.
23
24 Let's decide on a per package basis.
25
26 V-Li
27
28 --
29 Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
30 <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode
31
32 <URL:http://www.faulhammer.org/>

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