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