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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] 'Local' USE_EXPAND flags -- aka plugins are not that special
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 09:49:02
Message-Id: 51A87199.7090709@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] 'Local' USE_EXPAND flags -- aka plugins are not that special by "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina"
1 On 30/05/13 17:25, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote:
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5 > On 05/30/2013 06:26 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
6 >> On 30/05/13 11:58, Micha³ Górny wrote:
7 >>> Hello,
8 >>
9 >> Only replying in behalf of xfce_plugins. Our policy has been always to +
10 >> enable them by default as they are only used in Xfce specific packages
11 >> So setting XFCE_PLUGINS="" is a way to counter effect that policy
12 >>
13 >> This has worked well for us and I don't see a reason to change it, but
14 >> in general I have to agree, I've seen it overused myself too
15 >>
16 >>
17 >>
18 > I remember when the use expand was first added for XFCE stuff, nothing
19 > worked on my system for days while I tried to figure out what was wrong
20 > because I was only looking at the regular use flags.
21 >
22 > - -- (that's minus minus) on use_expand in general.
23
24 Well, we didn't + enable them at first by default which caused the confusion
25 I take responsibility for that mistake
26
27 - Samuli