On Saturday 08 October 2011, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 10/08/11 13:43, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > x11-terms/rxvt-unicode is one of the program I use the most, today > > I lost the ability to have multiple tabs and almost panicked. > > > > I found the solution to have back this essential feature: re-enable > > "perl" USE flag for this package and re-emerge. > > > > Just wanted to share my experience. > > HTH > > I'm going to start a bug-filing campaign against packages like this > some day. The only description we ever get for use flag foo is > 'enable support for foo', which doesn't tell you anything at all > about how it affects a given package. > > There are a number of packages with perl and python use flags where > disabling the use flag will silently disable essential functionality. > In my opinion, the use flag should simply be removed rather than > have what amounts to USE=make_it_work_properly. > > I agree with the (default) removal of the perl and python flags: > > http://blog.jolexa.net/ > > but you should complain about packages that are basically broken > without them.
I'm not going to complain, though I'm willing to point out (e.g. commenting on relevant bug reports) that some packages are affected in a bad way by this move. To be honest I didn't look for a solution in b.g.o because it was straightforward; even if not so manifest for me the link between the perl flag and the ability for rxvt to run tabbed (given that it doesn't give an error). I don't want to be blunt, but your plan looks to me quite vague. My opinion is that some packages should have a different default. Regards Francesco -- Linux Version 3.0.4-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 31 07:34:34 CEST 2011 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11659 Bogomips Total aemaeth