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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: mattst88@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE="minimal" seems like a bad idea
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:40:52
Message-Id: 20101121093816.4b8b8bd2@pomiocik.lan
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
4 > mattst88@Sempron /usr/portage $ egrep -l 'IUSE=.*minimal' `find -name
5 > '*.ebuild'`
6 >
7 > ^ shows lots of ebuilds with IUSE="minimal". Instead of having a
8 > minimal use flag for these packages, shouldn't we have, possibly
9 > local, use flags for whatever feature(s) the minimal flag turns off?
10
11 I used 'minimal' disable a set of additional features
12 (metadata.xml-clarified) not having extensive use but raising
13 the binary size. I think that's better than having 5 other flags doing
14 almost nothing (and having to be declared as +flag by default).
15
16 --
17 Best regards,
18 Michał Górny

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