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Bug 386827 - x11-terms/rxvt-unicode without perl flag
Summary: x11-terms/rxvt-unicode without perl flag
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2011-10-11 18:12 UTC by Talamona Francesco
Modified: 2011-10-11 20:54 UTC (History)
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Description Talamona Francesco 2011-10-11 18:12:37 UTC 
Perl USE flag haserecently been turned off globally, x11-terms/rxvt-unicode needs it in order to have tabbed terminals.

Please add perl to IUSE defaults (see [250179#c16])

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-10-11 20:27:12 UTC 
Probably no, the tabs are features which can be enabled optionally. Lets see what the maintainers say.
Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-10-11 20:54:41 UTC 
From README.configure:

    --enable-perl (default: on)
        Enable an embedded perl interpreter. See the rxvtperl(3) manpage for
        more info on this feature, or the files in src/perl/ for the
        extensions that are installed by default. The perl interpreter that
        is used can be specified via the "PERL" environment variable when
        running configure. Even when compiled in, perl will *not* be
        initialised when all extensions have been disabled "-pe ""
        --perl-ext-common """, so it should be safe to enable from a
        resource standpoint.

(In reply to comment #1)
> Probably no, the tabs are features which can be enabled optionally.

USE=perl enables more features than just tabs. :)

Since upstream likes it to be on by default, I guess we should follow that. Enabled in all ebuilds and described specially in metadata.xml.