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On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:44:21 +0000
James Harlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



> 
> > What do you think?
> 
> I suggest verifying that you can manually compile licq without kde,
> and then posting a bug on bugzilla. Repeat as required until all the 
> packages you use are useflag-enabled.


I keep seing threads like this cropping up at a regular basis, both here
and on bugzilla.  However, the small issue most people who file those
bugs overlook is reliability.

Here's the point,  we can easly remove the dependency on esd, and if the
code works, okay.  However, then you have an untracked dependency when
esd -is- installed but set as USE="-esd" , as it will be needed, but not
listed as such.

-that-  is unreliable behaviour, and in many cases we chose to rather
make it a hard dependency and force it down peoples throats, than to
expend time and work on issues where things -work- but we perhaps not
locally optimal.

So, Feel free to file any bugs you want about this, tcp-wrappers and
other such "bloated" issues. However:  If you do not wrap for the
reverse case, your changes will be ignored.


//Spider

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