-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dawid Węgliński wrote: > On Monday 08 of December 2008 11:34:21 Maciej Mrozowski wrote: >> Following advise from https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250179, I'm >> bringing it here. > > Hm, i totally don't agree with the original comment from the bug. Many people > get use of those two flags without even noticing it. There is bunch of good > soft, that take advantages of perl modules or python bindings/wrappers. For > servers it may be nagios-plugins with bunch of perl scripts for hosts > monitoring or at least nice DBD::mysql. > > So, maybe it's better to disable such flags on your system if you don't like > them - that's why you are using Gentoo, aren't you?
David, in the cases you mention, there's also the option to enable those use flags through IUSE defaults or if we're talking exclusively about server packages, thorough the server profiles. As explained in the bug, at least the python use flag means very heavy and *problematic* deps for KDE. As the current USE_ORDER prevents "-use" flags from working on ebuilds, any flag set by the profile requires users to "manually" disable it in /etc/portage/package.use[/*]. - -- Regards, Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / SPARC / KDE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkk9wiUACgkQcAWygvVEyAIfhACcCh6yMzzeSUah06AlRJ94iqnz +DUAn1j5hCIgig0EQQUF2Oa8zWJjnQbW =c+oh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
