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From: Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] What does "perl" USE flag do?
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:50:11
Message-Id: 44B2666F.5040201@mid.message-center.info
1 Hi!
2
3 After a sync today, I ran "emerge -Duvat world" and see for example:
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5 [nomerge ] dev-perl/DBD-mysql-3.0004 USE="-minimal perl%"
6 [nomerge ] dev-perl/DBI-1.51 USE="-minimal perl%"
7 [nomerge ] dev-perl/PlRPC-0.2018 USE="-minimal perl%"
8 [nomerge ] dev-perl/Net-Daemon-0.39 USE="-minimal perl%"
9
10 The "perl" USE flag is new. What does it do?
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12 [16:34:41 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:~] $ euse -i perl
13 global use flags (searching: perl)
14 ************************************************************
15 [+ D ] perl - Adds support/bindings for the Perl language.
16
17 local use flags (searching: perl)
18 ************************************************************
19 no matching entries found
20
21 Hm. I don't understand. Add support/binding for the Perl language
22 in Perl modules? What would be built, if the perl Module Net-Daemon-0.39
23 had no perl support or binding?
24
25 Alexander Skwar
26 --
27 IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's
28 got to be a better way.
29 -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
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Re: [gentoo-user] What does "perl" USE flag do? Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de>