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From: Bjoern Michaelsen <bjoern.michaelsen@...>
Subject: Re: ufed / USE-Flags Grouping Suggestion
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 01:48:32 +0200
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 03:58:15PM +0200, Martin Schipany wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've been using gentoo exclusively for over 2 years, and saw the number
> of USE-flags growing up to about 530 today. It is becoming more and more
> difficult to find the important and/or interesting ones. 
... and it is even more difficult to "get them right the first time"
on a fresh install.
> 
> IMHO it would make sense to group them, for example a group "Local
> Flags" would be fine (especially on server where you don't need them),
> or "Hardware related" for supporting special features in this case.
Basically a good idea, but things might "belong" to more than one group.
I recently saw that the ROCK linux distro seems to be using the kernel
configuration system - Couldnt this be a more flexible solution?

Greetz, Björn
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