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On Monday 05 July 2004 15:36, Jeffrey Forman wrote: |
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> I was talking to g2boojum and he suggested I ask on here. I was going |
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> through my bind bugs recently and came upon |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51577 |
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> The user would like a way to disable linux compatability if your kernel |
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> does not support it by using the 'caps' use flag. Maybe I dont fully |
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> understand 'linux compatability' but if we're all running Gentoo, arent |
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> we all running linux in the first place? |
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> My problem surfaces: Bind enables 'linux compatability' by default. |
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> Gentoo does have a linux compability flag (caps), but this is only to |
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> ENABLE linux compatability, not to disable it. I attempted to use the |
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> bugger's suggestion, but repoman got pissed on a full scan. Grant |
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> mentioned maybe making 'caps' part of the default use flag. |
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> Basically I'd like a way of using a "reverse" use flag, -caps, and if |
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> -caps is set, disable linux compat; if the flag is not set, do not add |
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> any --config-option at all. |
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As this does not actually introduce any dependencies I think that the best |
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way might be to detect whether caps is available (and doing some part of |
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the job that the configure script should do). |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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