On 2013/11/20 11:32, Martin Pieuchot wrote:
> On 20/11/13(Wed) 10:16, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2013/11/20 10:10, Martin Pieuchot wrote:
> > > This one is not under _KERNEL but it's used at only one place and
> > > if a port use it, it should probably define it by itself.
> > 
> > This is used in at least kde-workspace and embedded copies of slirp
> > (the ones I know about so far are emulators/qemu and emulators/BasiliskII).
> > 
> > It's easy enough to patch existing users in ports now, but removing it
> > makes things more difficult for people porting something else later
> > which happens to use it - so I wonder what's the reasoning behind this?
> > (if it's a namespace issue, I don't think that's valid given that it's
> > widely available - xnu, solaris, free/net/open/dfbsd and derivatives).
> 
> Simply cleaning, to unify our code base.
> 
> > btw if people want a quick way to search for things in common source code,
> > http://codesearch.debian.net/ is useful.
> 
> Nice tool, thanks for the hint.
> 
> So here's an updated version that keeps the define for userland, would
> it be ok?

After some test builds and a careful look at where the #ifdef's are,
I've revised my opinion, nothing in ports does actually use it ;)
As a result, I'm OK with either version of this.

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