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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] tinfo flag
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 22:26:49
Message-Id: CAJ0EP40OawF4xhewQuKZ6FWUPYCSs4TE316a5V3iHgAQ2juhJA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] tinfo flag by "Michał Górny"
1 On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 12:54:26 -0500
3 > Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 6:13 AM, konsolebox <konsolebox@×××××.com> wrote:
6 >> > Please consider promoting the use of tinfo flag in packages that
7 >> > depend on sys-libs/ncurses so that they would synchronize properly
8 >> > with sys-libs/ncurses[tinfo].
9 >>
10 >> I would rather see the tinfo USE flag removed from ncurses.
11 >
12 > vapier doesn't consider this QA violation a QA violation.
13 >
14 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/487844
15
16 Perhaps QA could take some action then?
17
18 Updating ~1500 ebuilds with a [tinfo=] use-dep seems like a poor solution.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] tinfo flag William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] tinfo flag konsolebox <konsolebox@×××××.com>