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| From: | Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: net-im/pidgin protocols | ||
| Date: | Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:25:35 | ||
| Message-Id: | 200707192222.48124.vapier@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] Re: net-im/pidgin protocols by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> | ||
| 1 | On Thursday 19 July 2007, Duncan wrote: |
| 2 | > OTOH, if enabling those protocols pulls in all sorts of additional |
| 3 | > packages to support them, shipping with everything on just because it's |
| 4 | > possible is not the Gentoo way. That's what USE flags are for. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | USE flags are not for controlling dependencies, they are for controlling |
| 7 | features. it just happens to work out that most of the time, features imply |
| 8 | dependencies. |
| 9 | -mike |
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