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From: Kito <kito@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [G/FBSD] /usr/lib/charset.alias
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 01:18:13
Message-Id: A0BC5362-C0D8-4216-A9F3-7C6B9DD34CD3@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [G/FBSD] /usr/lib/charset.alias by Mike Frysinger
1 On Jul 15, 2005, at 7:45 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2
3 > On Friday 15 July 2005 08:33 pm, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
4 >
5 >> On Gentoo/FreeBSD and probably every other system using dev-util/
6 >> libiconv
7 >> instead of the glibc-provided one creates the /usr/lib/
8 >> charset.alias file.
9 >> Unfortunately this gets conflict over different packages.
10
11 Exact same situation with Darwin/OS X...
12
13 >>
14 >
15 > i thought the packages that create that file do so because they
16 > were utilizing
17 > some bundled crap ...
18 >
19 > regardless, i think this should be done on a global scale rather than
20 > per-package ... why not add some bashrc-foo to your profile ?
21
22 Globally would definitely be better IMO. But how would bash-fu in a
23 profile prevent a collision during a merge?
24
25 >
26 > can i get access to a fbsd box so i can test some of this crap ?
27 > i'd like to
28 > investigate sed/e2fsprogs and why it installs those files ...
29 > -mike
30 >
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33 >
34 >
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [G/FBSD] /usr/lib/charset.alias Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>