On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 10:58:03PM +0000, Stuart Herbert wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 23:48 +0200, Petteri R??ty wrote: > > /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc:xml - Check/Support flag for XML library > > (version 1) > > > > I think the xml use flag should be more generic. There are after all > > other alternatives for xml support than dev-libs/libxml. Maybe something > > like Adds xml support? > > I can see where you're coming from, but I'm not sure it's worth the > potential disruption that this will cause our users. > > Unless I'm missing something, won't every user who has any form of > USE=xml, USE=-xml, USE=xml2, or USE=-xml2 in make.conf and packages.use > get a nasty surprise the next time they emerge -u world? > > I haven't seen any discussion taking this into account yet.
i dont really see this being an issue ... i dont think anyone really has 'xml -xml2' or '-xml xml2' ... much more likely they have 'xml xml2' or '-xml -xml2' -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
