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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@...>
Subject: Re: IUSE="minimal" seems like a bad idea
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:34:10 +0000
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 23:44:05 -0500
Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
> mattst88@Sempron /usr/portage $ egrep -l 'IUSE=.*minimal' `find -name
> '*.ebuild'`
> 
> ^ shows lots of ebuilds with IUSE="minimal". Instead of having a
> minimal use flag for these packages, shouldn't we have, possibly
> local, use flags for whatever feature(s) the minimal flag turns off?

For vim, which is where I believe the minimal flag originated, you'd
have to have twenty or thirty individual flags for the vim features in
question, and many of them are interdependent.

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Ciaran McCreesh
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