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El vie, 23-10-2009 a las 22:54 +0300, Petteri Räty escribió: |
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> Thomas Sachau wrote: |
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> > In addition, i see a trend to enabled more more more USE flags (either over profiles or via IUSE |
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> > +flag). Whats the reason for forcing a big load of default enabled USE flags on every user including |
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> > more dependencies, more compile time, more wasted disk space and more possible vulnerabilities |
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> > except some users, who complain about a missing feature and are not able to think and enable a USE |
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> > flag for that feature? |
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> One possible reason is that our packages should follow upstream policy |
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> and maybe upstreams usually like to keep things enabled rather than |
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> disabled. |
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> Regards, |
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> Petteri |
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I don't see any problem in enabling some USE flags by default but, |
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maybe, would be interesting to have a place where people could consult |
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why some USEs are enabled and, specially, disabled by default. |
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The problem is where to write that information :-/ (into the ebuild, |
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into metadata file...) |
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Best regards |