On 12/06/2016 06:44 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 9:11 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 05:26:19PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>> On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 12:54:26 -0500 >>>> Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 6:13 AM, konsolebox <konsole...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> Please consider promoting the use of tinfo flag in packages that >>>>>> depend on sys-libs/ncurses so that they would synchronize properly >>>>>> with sys-libs/ncurses[tinfo]. >>>>> >>>>> I would rather see the tinfo USE flag removed from ncurses. >>>> >>>> vapier doesn't consider this QA violation a QA violation. >>>> >>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/487844 >>> >>> Perhaps QA could take some action then? >>> >>> Updating ~1500 ebuilds with a [tinfo=] use-dep seems like a poor solution. >> >> <qa hat on> >> Our policies are in the dev manual, so please cite the violation there. >> If you can't, this is not a qa violation, so please don't call it one. >> </qa hat> >> >> I don't see a problem with the use flag and suggest updating the other >> ebuilds. > > The USE flag introduces needless complexity for zero benefit. Please > explain to me why this is a good idea. > As an onlooker, I don't see anything in favor of getting rid of it, and otherwise it seems like a normal USE flag. All that's been said in favor of removing it is just statements that tell me it's more complex or that it's a QA violation.
Could you explain so other people (and myself) understand what you're talking about? -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6
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