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Bug 47132 - geoip USE flag should be global, not local
Summary: geoip USE flag should be global, not local
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: SpanKY
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Reported: 2004-04-07 11:59 UTC by Julien Allanos (RETIRED)
Modified: 2004-04-09 21:20 UTC (History)
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Description Julien Allanos (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-04-07 11:59:09 UTC 
# euse -i geoip
geoip [+] [C] [L] [net-p2p/nicotine] : Enable GeoIP support

but it is used in xqf for example:

# emerge -vp xqf  

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] games-util/xqf-0.9.14  +geoip +gtk +gtk2 +nls  0 kB
Comment 1 Julien Allanos (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-04-08 07:32:18 UTC 
expat is another local flag that should be global, because it is used by net-misc/neon.
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-04-09 21:20:07 UTC 
the same flag being used by two packages does not make it a canidate for global

perhaps as geoip becomes more popular we will

expat tends to be a required library than an optional which is why most packages dont have expat as an option