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On Friday 13 February 2004 13:54, Spider wrote: |
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> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:44:21 +0000 |
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> James Harlow <james@××××××××××××××.nu> wrote: |
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> > > What do you think? |
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> > |
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> > I suggest verifying that you can manually compile licq without kde, |
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> > and then posting a bug on bugzilla. Repeat as required until all the |
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> > packages you use are useflag-enabled. |
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> I keep seing threads like this cropping up at a regular basis, both |
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> here and on bugzilla. However, the small issue most people who file |
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> those bugs overlook is reliability. |
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> Here's the point, we can easly remove the dependency on esd, and if |
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> the code works, okay. However, then you have an untracked dependency |
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> when esd -is- installed but set as USE="-esd" , as it will be needed, |
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> but not listed as such. |
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> -that- is unreliable behaviour, and in many cases we chose to rather |
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> make it a hard dependency and force it down peoples throats, than to |
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> expend time and work on issues where things -work- but we perhaps not |
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> locally optimal. |
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> So, Feel free to file any bugs you want about this, tcp-wrappers and |
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> other such "bloated" issues. However: If you do not wrap for the |
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> reverse case, your changes will be ignored. |
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I have sent a message to portage-dev to this respect suggesting dynamic |
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runtime deps. Basically saying, if this package is available at |
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compiletime it will be needed at runtime. This would probably be an |
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option for portageng, but it would allow these things to be tracked. |
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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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