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On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:57:17 +0100 Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o> wrote: |
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| alsa - this does not make most sense definitely, this horrible thing |
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| needs to die. |
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Why? On x86, alsa is the least broken sound system, and on x86, the |
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target for the default profiles is desktops, and most desktops have |
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soundcards. |
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| emboss - "Adds support for the European Molecular Biology Open |
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| Software Suite." WTF? Why are we abusing make.defaults for such stuff? |
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Because it makes sense. For any application which has IUSE="emboss", |
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chances are emboss should be enabled. There was a long discussion about |
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this on the -user list a while back where I ended up posting a |
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newbie-friendly explanation of the whole thing. Perhaps you could hunt |
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it down on marc or gmane and post a link here... |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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