On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 14:15 +0100, Steve Long wrote: > 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."
That isn't policy, as much as I would like it to be. Also, both hal and zlib are in USE in the default profiles, so it does work out of the box right now. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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