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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Changing description for the xml global use flag
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:59:55
Message-Id: pan.2005.12.20.07.55.53.540159@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing description for the xml global use flag by "Petteri Räty"
1 Petteri Räty posted <43A731D5.1080402@g.o>, excerpted below, on
2 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:19:01 +0200:
3
4 > Mike Frysinger wrote:
5 >
6 >> then you'd have to deprecate the usage of xml2
7 >>
8 >> is there any package which uses both xml and xml2 ? if not, i dont see
9 >> why we cant condense the two down into one -mike
10 >
11 > betelgeuse@pena ~/test/java $ qgrep -v IUSE | grep xml2 | grep -e
12 > "xml[^2]" dev-tcltk/tclxml/tclxml-3.0.ebuild: IUSE="expat threads xml2"
13 > media-libs/libwmf/libwmf-0.2.8.3-r1.ebuild: IUSE="jpeg X xml xml2 debug
14 > doc gtk"
15 > net-misc/sitecopy/sitecopy-0.13.4-r2.ebuild: IUSE="ssl xml xml2 gnome nls"
16 > net-print/pykota/pykota-1.22_p1548.ebuild: IUSE="ldap postgres snmp xml
17 > xml2"
18 > net-print/pykota/pykota-1.23_p1869-r1.ebuild: IUSE="ldap postgres snmp xml
19 > xml2"
20 > net-print/pykota/pykota-1.23_p1869.ebuild: IUSE="ldap postgres snmp xml
21 > xml2"
22 > net-print/pykota/pykota-1.23_p1874.ebuild: IUSE="ldap postgres snmp xml
23 > xml2"
24
25 What about doing with xml what was done with gtk, when gtk2 was
26 deprecated? IOW, where both are possible, default to one or the other,
27 which ever one is merged, or choose one (preferably making it a
28 Gentoo-wide default, for consistency) if both or neither are merged.
29
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32 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
33 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in
34 http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing description for the xml global use flag Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>