On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:36:15AM -0700, Wes Hardaker wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:54:10 +0200, Magnus Fromreide > >>>>> <[email protected]> said: > > MF> I think feature-remove should > > It took me a while to get around to following the logic. > > Fundamentally, if I got it right, you want the default result of the > feature_want() to actually not get it.
Yes. > This would be a change to the existing (released) functionality, so I'd > argue we can't safely do that. We could offer another flag too though: > > --enable-minimalist-including-wants > > or, um, something that would turn on (off!) the functionality you're > looking for. I agree on this part as well, and admit that I am at a loss for what to call the flag. Ideas appreciated here. (by the way, enable-minimalist-including-wants is confusing as it excludes, rather than includes, the wants) > MF> wantwantedfeatures is to ignore want's - kind of like remove every > MF> feature unless it is necessary. That is a new feature i am proposing. > > Right, though I'm thinking that default value should be true. Yes - the default value should be true. Do not change anything if it is avoidable. > My original goal was to simply remove anything "unnecessary". But, > admittedly, my definition of "unnecessary" didn't include functionality > that was "desired" but could be removed at a cost. Yep :-) I have a preliminary patch, but not here. The testsuite fails rather spectacularly as one thing that end up beeing removed is the logging functionality. I think I have to add a few more SKIPIF's there. /MF ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
