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From: Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] webdav global use flag and default
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:03:35
Message-Id: 200607282109.12988.kugelfang@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] webdav global use flag and default by Stefan Schweizer
1 Am Freitag, 28. Juli 2006 10:18 schrieb Stefan Schweizer:
2 > Hi
3 >
4 > we currently have both webdav and nowebdav ueflags, this is
5 > confusing:
6 >
7 > # grep webdav /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc
8 > dev-util/git:webdav - Adds support for push'ing to HTTP repositories
9 > via DAV dev-util/subversion:nowebdav - Disables WebDAV support via
10 > neon library net-misc/sitecopy:webdav - Enable WebDav (Web-based
11 > Distributed Authoring and Versioning) support. This system allows
12 > users to collaborate on websites using a web based interface. See
13 > the ebuild for an FAQ page. Enables neon as well to handle webdav
14 > support.
15 > www-apps/open-xchange:webdav - Enable WebDav (Web-based Distributed
16 > Authoring and Versioning) support.
17 > www-servers/lighttpd:webdav - Enables webdev properties
18 >
19 > The proposed solution is to make webdav a global useflag and set it
20 > as a default use flag to have the same effect as the current nowebdav
21 > use flag in subversion.
22
23 5 packages, and only one has nowebdav, and you want to make it a default
24 USE flag? I strongly disagree here. Make it a plain useflag and notify
25 users of subversion that the behaviour changed. Much better than
26 informing users of the other 4 packages that the behaviour changed.
27
28 Danny
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30 Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o>
31 Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project
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[gentoo-dev] Re: webdav global use flag and default Stefan Schweizer <genstef@g.o>