On Sunday 08 January 2012 00:06:18 Darrell Anderson wrote:
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> No. When important features like HAL or SASL are disabled by default,
> various apps in the package are rendered useless. Any app needing
> authentication with SASL, for example, which includes the staple app of
> KMail, is no longer functional. Likewise with HAL.

Before building something, packager should be aware about all features are 
available for package. I do not want to dictate which feature are "important" 
and which is not.

> I disagree with disabling everything. We as the upstream providers need to
> test everything. The downstream packagers decide what to disable for their
> distros or personal usage.
>
> Darrell

I disabled every feature intentional, because I think this behavious is very 
consistent, and packager will don't need to guess which features are OFF and 
which are ON.


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Serghei