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From: Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Global USE Flag RFC: oracle
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:52:04
Message-Id: 200406281851.59354.stuart@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Global USE Flag RFC: oracle by Don Seiler
1 On Monday 28 June 2004 18:12, Don Seiler wrote:
2 > I propose making 'oracle' a global USE flag. Yes we already have
3 > 'oci8', but oci8 really should only pertain to Oracle 8i support. The
4 > change is more notable when packages like PHP have both --with-oci8 and
5 > --with-oracle configurations that do different things.
6 >
7 > I'm going to change dev-db/tora to use oracle instead of oci8, and
8 > recommend that packages with option Oracle support use the 'oracle' USE
9 > flag.
10 >
11 > Please let me know what you guys think.
12
13 As part of the PHP5 work, I've added an 'oracle7' flag to denote Oracle
14 support. I'm not sure a generic 'oracle' USE flag is practical - at least,
15 not for PHP.
16
17 Best regards,
18 Stu
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