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Spider posted <20040829214235.5115ef57.spider@g.o>, excerpted |
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below, on Sun, 29 Aug 2004 21:42:35 +0200: |
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> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:56:56 +0200 |
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> Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o> wrote: |
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>> The kde herd wants to give everyone the possibility to configure with |
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>> --enable-final via the "final" use flag. Additionally I thought about a |
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>> kde-misc category, which would include a bunch of kde related packages, |
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>> which are now mainly placed in app-misc, x11-misc, some in other |
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>> categories and a few are still in bugs.g.o. |
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>> Any objections? |
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> I'd object to the use of the word "final" for this, since its ambigous and |
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> hard to comprehend its meaning. I'd suggest finding a better word to |
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> describe the flag and its function. |
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The trouble is that's the upstream choice. From kdebase 3.3.0's |
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./configure --help: |
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--enable-final build size optimized apps (experimental [...]) |
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Isn't one of the Gentoo policies to let upstream policy guide where |
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possible in such instances? Anyone that has worked on KDE sources should |
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instantly grok what such a use flag is about. If Gentoo calls it |
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something else, it will IMO make things /less/ clear. |
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Well, I guess the /one/ simpler possibility would be to call the flag |
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"enable-final", instead of simply "final", making it even clearer, but I'd |
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expect that wouldn't address your concern. |
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temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- |
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