59084 – Changing global USE flag -- "pdflib"

Bug 59084 - Changing global USE flag -- "pdflib"

Summary: Changing global USE flag -- "pdflib"

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Lukasz Strzygowski (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2004-08-01 13:05 UTC by Lukasz Strzygowski (RETIRED)
Modified:	2004-08-04 08:31 UTC (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Description Lukasz Strzygowski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-01 13:05:17 UTC

I had already asked on gentoo-dev but i haven't got any response. I would like to rename global USE flag "pdflib" to "pdf". This change has several advantages: "pdf" is more self-descripting for users and it is more general, so we can use it in more ebuilds (for example, see #57762).

Affected packages and their maintainers are:
app-text/xml2doc (text-markup@gentoo.org)
dev-lang/pike (scandium@gentoo.org)
net-mail/sylpheed-claws (net-mail@gentoo.org)
media-gfx/gnuplot (sci@gentoo.org)
media-gfx/grace (sci@gentoo.org)
dev-php/mod_php (php@gentoo.org)
dev-php/php-cgi (php@gentoo.org)

Please tell what do you think about it, and if you have no objection, modify suitably your packages.

Comment 1 Stuart Herbert (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-01 14:00:19 UTC

I'd rather this change didn't happen.  PHP supports more than one pdf library.  How exactly are we supposed to work out which one the user wanted to use? ;-)

Best regards,
Stu

Comment 2 Lukasz Strzygowski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-04 08:31:04 UTC

I see, thanks for information. Description of the "pdflib" in use.desc had misleaded me, and i thought it's generally for PDF support, not only for a specific library.