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Hello |
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Somewhat continuing my battle to reasonably minimise USE flags enabled by |
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default for users, I'd like to ask about one particular commit. Note that |
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there's no commit message and it looks a bit fishy: |
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http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo- |
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x86/profiles/base/use.defaults?r1=1.1&r2=1.1.1.1 |
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It enables considerable amount of USE flags in base profile. |
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I'm most concerned about 'gstreamer' USE flag as it's not needed at all for |
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KDE users (they get xine phonon backend as default and will just cause |
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unnecessary dependency chain). |
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If author of that commit is concerned about Gnome functionality, he could talk |
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with Gnome devs first - besides gstreamer is probably pulled there as |
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dependency so no point really in enabling it as USE flag in base profile. |
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Please remove it. |
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(also 'gtk' is there, why not 'kde' as well? remember we're talking about |
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*base* profile, not *desktop* profile) |
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And my main point is - since we have EAPI=1 (use defaults) and EAPI=2 (use |
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deps, yes, it's time to learn those), sane defaults should be set per package |
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level if possible and respected via use deps. |
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Also this is very related to bug [1] and discussion about it [2]. It would be |
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nice to see some progress on that matter (progress = perl and python dropped |
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from profile, and only enabled for ebuilds when maintainer see it fit). |
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1. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250179 |
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2. http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo- |
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dev/msg_afe72c138992b6a590120de199ffcc44.xml |
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-- |
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regards |
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MM |
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