On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:12 AM, Akim Demaille <a...@lrde.epita.fr> wrote:

> Also, do people really use deactivate/activate offline?


Yes, effectively; my local Internet connection is kinda crap at times. Also
I use it with ports that can't be packaged for licensing reasons, or
because of non-default variants (indeed, sometimes to quick-switch between
variants). (We can't package non-default variants sanely because it would
lead to a combinatorial explosion of dependencies with different variants.)

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