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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE="minimal" seems like a bad idea
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:34:40
Message-Id: 20101121123410.53bdd048@snowcone
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] IUSE="minimal" seems like a bad idea by Matt Turner
1 On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 23:44:05 -0500
2 Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
3 > mattst88@Sempron /usr/portage $ egrep -l 'IUSE=.*minimal' `find -name
4 > '*.ebuild'`
5 >
6 > ^ shows lots of ebuilds with IUSE="minimal". Instead of having a
7 > minimal use flag for these packages, shouldn't we have, possibly
8 > local, use flags for whatever feature(s) the minimal flag turns off?
9
10 For vim, which is where I believe the minimal flag originated, you'd
11 have to have twenty or thirty individual flags for the vim features in
12 question, and many of them are interdependent.
13
14 --
15 Ciaran McCreesh

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