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Bug 18102

Summary: perl ebuild mentions USE=threads which is missing from http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Rob Davies <Rob_Davies>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: minor    
Priority: High    
Version: 1.4_rc2   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml
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Description Rob Davies 2003-03-24 14:00:53 UTC
>>> emerge (12 of 86) dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r9 to /
>>> md5 ;-) perl-5.8.0.tar.gz
 *
 * PLEASE NOTE: If you want to compile perl-5.8 with
 * threading enabled , you must restart this emerge
 * with USE=threads emerge....
 * Threading is not supported by all applications
 * that compile against perl. You use threading at
 * your own discretion.

Either the dynamic use docs are wrong or the notes with the perl ebuild.  I've 
submitted it as a Doc bug as it's more likely someone forgot to add the 
'threads' USE, than the ebuild is out of date???
Comment 1 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-03-30 14:31:30 UTC
probably the ebuild
Comment 2 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-03-30 14:34:05 UTC
this is a single ebuild use flag.

only global use flags, which are used by many ebuilds are documented