On 9 September 2012 15:53, Matthias Bethke <[email protected]> wrote: > I think Gentoo of all distributions should aim to provide software as > "original" as possible. If there are any reasons that I have ignored so > far why people would want the current behavior, how about I make this > patch conditional on a new use flag?
I'd suggest not a USE flag, at least, not at present, it would needlessly require all ebuilds to have that useflag, which would be a significant noise to users. I'd rather a documented( in the eclass ) ENV variable that could toggle this behaviour that was /not/ a use-flag, so only people who cared about that sort of behaviour could adjust it. Then the question is only really as to what a "Sane default" is. Seems the sane default is to install packlists, but have it being disable-able by ENV change for the people who have the tuits to know "I'll never need those, and if I do, I can handle the need to rebuild everything with them". Additionally, it /might/ be nice if we could have a 3rd party ( Gentoo ) tool that reads a dists CONTENTS file and re-creates packlist files when needed, but thats more work than the above at present. =) -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz
