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Norman Rieß wrote: |
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> Donnie Berkholz schrieb: |
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>> The portage team just got rid of exactly this capability for creating |
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>> difficult to reproduce USE flag setups, because they were dynamic, based |
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>> on what's installed rather than set unconditionally in make.conf. |
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>> So it's a difficult argument to say we should re-add it into the |
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>> installer. |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> Donnie |
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> Why difficult to reproduce? Same software should create same USE-flag |
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> settings. |
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> I find it a little funny, that an official installer installes a perhaps |
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> not working system "by default". |
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> I think that misses the point of an installer! |
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USE flags control optional stuff. If something doesn't work because of a missing |
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USE flag, that's a bug with that particular ebuild. |
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Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project |
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