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William Hubbs schrieb: |
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> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:07:08PM -0400, Richard Freeman wrote: |
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>> R??mi Cardona wrote: |
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>>> Le 26/10/2009 22:58, Richard Freeman a ??crit : |
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>>>> Gentoo is about choice. |
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>>> No it isn't. Gentoo is about empowering users, giving them the ability |
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>>> and tools to _change_ the distro to _their_ needs. |
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>>> Gentoo does _not_ cater to all the possible needs. |
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>>> This is somewhat off-topic, but it irks me every time I see/hear it, so |
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>>> there. |
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>> Well, I'm not sure I see any contradiction. When people say that gentoo |
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>> is about choice, it means that we should give the end-user flexibility |
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>> whenever it is feasible. Of course that doesn't mean that there should |
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>> be a lunar-lander-in-a-box use flag. However, if KDE 4.2 includes a |
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>> lunar lander module we should in fact add such a flag for the benefit of |
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>> those of us who don't own space programs. |
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> Agreed. However, I think the discussion is around whether we should enable |
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> the lunar-lander-in-a-box use flag by default and where it should be |
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> enabled by us if we do enable it. |
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> Since profiles override IUSE defaults, if we enable the flag in the |
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> profiles, this means that it will be enabled for all packages that have |
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> the use flag, regardless of whether they are KDE related, unless the |
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> user disables the flag in make.conf or package.use. |
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> On the other hand, if we enable it with IUSE defaults at the |
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> package level, it lets the user decide whether or not they want it to be |
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> enabled for their entire system by editing make.conf. |
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Are you sure about this part? Afaik IUSE defaults overrides make.conf, you will have to explicitly |
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add an entry to package.use for every package, where it is enabled per IUSE default. |
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Thomas Sachau |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |