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James Cloos wrote: |
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> The pciutils ebuild should be re-engineered to use separate USE flags |
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> for linking to libz and compressing the database. |
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It may be what upstream (pciutils) do by default, but no other distro ships |
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with compressed ids for the reasons you outline (and you can't mmap the |
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file). It breaks a default desktop installation (aiui) so it really |
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shouldn't use a default system-wide USE flag, but a local one. Anyone who |
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really wants it can set it, and everyone else's machines will still work. |
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As Mr Gianelloni spelt out on bugzilla[1]: |
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"when you install from stage3, then immediately type "emerge [blah]", I |
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would expect it to work. If it does not, then it is a failure in the |
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ebuild and a bug... it is your responsility to ensure that your package is |
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not broken with a default installation." |
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I don't know if that's policy or not, but imo it should be. |
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On a wider note, it seemed to me from the bug to be more of a dispute |
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between HAL upstream and pciutils upstream. I wonder how many such disputes |
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are actually resolved within Gentoo, since it seems the kind of thing that |
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would show up most in a source distro. |
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(And as such shows another reason why Gentoo is so important to the wider |
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community. Certainly devs from other projects i've met on IRC who use |
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Gentoo seem a lot less stressed than those on other distros.. ;) |
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[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120088#c3 |
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