On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 04:15:42PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 09:05:57 -0500
> William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > All,
> > 
> > there are currently 19 packages in the tree that have the luajit use
> > flag, and I am planning on adding 10 more.
> > 
> > I think this use flag should be global with the following description:
> > 
> > "use the lua just-in-time compiler for lua support"
> > 
> > If there are no objections, I'll start the transition on or after 17
> > Jul.
> 
> I'd rather avoid adding more of this until we figure out what to do
> about multiple Lua versions. The Lua5.1/5.2 split is still stuck
> nowhere, and luajit is yet another variant to handle.

If we don't do this, the only way to add luajit support to dev-lua/busted is to
propegate the local use flag into all of its dependencies [1], and that is
what I'm trying to avoid.

William

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584694

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