[gentoo-dev] RFC: Making largefile a global use

2011-03-10 Thread justin
Hi, there are not many packages using it, but I will add this flag to another 10. And I think, it is of a general, global meaning. Do you agree in making it a global USE? justin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Making largefile a global use

2011-03-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday, March 10, 2011 03:08:24 justin wrote: there are not many packages using it, but I will add this flag to another 10. And I think, it is of a general, global meaning. Do you agree in making it a global USE? i cant see much value anymore in even making this an option. just drop the

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Making largefile a global use

2011-03-10 Thread Amadeusz Żołnowski
Excerpts from justin's message of Thu Mar 10 09:08:24 +0100 2011: there are not many packages using it, but I will add this flag to another 10. And I think, it is of a general, global meaning. Do you agree in making it a global USE? I'm new here, but I think it would be good idea to list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Making largefile a global use

2011-03-10 Thread justin
On 10/03/11 09:36, Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: Excerpts from justin's message of Thu Mar 10 09:08:24 +0100 2011: there are not many packages using it, but I will add this flag to another 10. And I think, it is of a general, global meaning. Do you agree in making it a global USE? I'm new

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Making largefile a global use

2011-03-10 Thread Dale
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday, March 10, 2011 03:08:24 justin wrote: there are not many packages using it, but I will add this flag to another 10. And I think, it is of a general, global meaning. Do you agree in making it a global USE? i cant see much value anymore in even making

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Making largefile a global use

2011-03-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday, March 10, 2011 03:36:46 Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: Excerpts from justin's message of Thu Mar 10 09:08:24 +0100 2011: there are not many packages using it, but I will add this flag to another 10. And I think, it is of a general, global meaning. Do you agree in making it a

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Making largefile a global use

2011-03-10 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 2:12 PM, justin j...@gentoo.org wrote:  euse -i largefile [snip] [+ C  ] largefile (dev-libs/eggdbus): Support for large files For the record: eggdbus was merged into glib itself as gdbus, and almost nothing needs it anymore. It'll be removed as soon as

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Making largefile a global use

2011-03-10 Thread Chris Richards
On 03/10/2011 02:35 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: i cant see much value anymore in even making this an option. just drop the USE flag and always use LFS. -mike +1