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Toralf Förster: |
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> On 03/29/2014 08:12 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: |
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>> On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:15:14 -0400 Alex Xu <alex_y_xu@×××××.ca> |
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>> wrote: |
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>>> On 29/03/14 06:07 AM, Toralf Förster wrote: |
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>>>> WRT to but 504616 I'd like to address my questions made in |
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>>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504616#c6 to this |
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>>>> list again : |
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>>>> |
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>>>> "Since the Debian debakel with "fixing" an uninitialized |
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>>>> memeory I'm very skeptical to distribution specific |
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>>>> corrections which are not included upstream. At least I'm |
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>>>> wondering if the USE flag hpn should be enabled by the user |
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>>>> explicitely - currently it is in IUSE already." |
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>>> |
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>>> 1. Please use a spelling checker. |
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>>> |
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>>> 2. IUSE doesn't mean what you think it means. |
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>>> http://devmanual.gentoo.org/quickstart/#ebuild-with-use-flags |
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> |
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>> Toralf wants to indicate that it is implicitly enabled by |
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>> default (by the '+' character); and thus, he would like to see it |
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>> become disabled by default, such that the user can explicitly |
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>> enable it. |
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> Yes - that's what I want. |
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We have had those debates whether the "+" should follow upstream |
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decisions and such. Short answer: the maintainer decides. There is no |
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consistency for this and there will never be. |
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> At least an einfo should be added to the package IMO telling the |
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> user that HPN is enabled by default. |
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No, that's not the right approach. There are tools you can use to |
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check what flags are enabled. Use 'eix' and 'equery' for example. |
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