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Hi, |
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:38:39 +0200 Alexander Skwar |
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<listen@×××××××××××××××.name> wrote: |
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> The "perl" USE flag is new. What does it do? |
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I just replied on the german ML to this question, but since it was |
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re-asked here: |
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The perl USE flag pulls in dev-lang/perl as a dependency. It is now a |
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default USE flag on most profiles. |
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I guess it's due to other flavours than Gentoo/Linux may have already a |
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working perl in their base system (e.g. the BSDs, Darwin, whatever) and |
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are assumed that there shouldn't be another one pulled in. |
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-hwh |
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