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From: William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-dev List <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new local USE var: vim-with-x
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:18:53
Message-Id: 1051711736.24674.1769.camel@rattus.Localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] new local USE var: vim-with-x by Troy Dack
1 Only to have the whole lot fall in a heap when an "emerge -u" writes
2 over the top of your carefully tailored USE flags. USE flags as they
3 are currently implemented have a few shortcomings, and it looks like
4 from this discussion that per package overides will be the real
5 solution. In the meantime, please dont build console apps with X
6 support by default! If I want X support, I will run X and gvim.
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8 BillK - one who has been bitten by silly USE defaults like X in console
9 applications ...
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11 On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 11:25, Troy Dack wrote:
12 > On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 01:46, Grant Goodyear wrote:
13 ...
14 > > I propose that we go ahead and have vim build with X support if people
15 > > don't override the +X useflag, since that's most inline with Gentoo
16 > > philosophy.
17 >
18 > Hear, Hear!! That is the whole point of USE flags!
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