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Maciej Mrozowski posted on Sun, 08 May 2011 22:48:39 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> Nirbheek... and what's particularly wrong with 'introspection' global |
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> USE flag having implementation-agnostic "Enable runtime API |
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> introspection" description? |
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> Nobody sees anything wrong with overly vague 'xml' global USE flag and |
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> my proposition isn't worse ('Add support for XML files' ... you mean |
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> what support? import/export or just expat vs libxml2?) |
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FWIW, I believe it's more a case of "what's done is done, and it's more |
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hassle than anybody's been willing to take to fix it now" in the case of |
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USE=xml, than not seeing anything wrong with it. But just because there's |
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already such examples in wide use in the tree doesn't mean we need or want |
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more of them! |
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Certainly that's my feeling as a Gentoo sysadmin trying to make sense of |
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such flags and how they affect various packages, especially when a bug |
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ends up being USE-flag dependent and I need to know whether I actually |
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need that functionality or not. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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