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Michael Orlitzky posted on Sat, 12 Aug 2017 05:58:41 -0400 as excerpted: |
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> On 08/12/2017 04:39 AM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: |
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>> There are use-cases for --changed-use / --newuse other than changed |
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>> IUSE. |
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>> I find it useful to easily rebuild affected packages when changing USE |
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>> flags in make.conf. If the flags were removed, would we have a good |
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>> alternative? |
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> I simply overlooked the global USE change in make.conf because IMO it's |
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> a nonsense operation |
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How so? Are you arguing that deciding to system-wide switch to/from |
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pulseaudio, systemd, or gstreamer is nonsense? |
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If so, I suspect many gentooers including myself strongly disagree. If |
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not, I'd be interested in what you propose as an alternative to changing |
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the appropriate USE flag systemwide, for what is after all a systemwide |
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change. |
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Just seems to me an extremely surprising and unexpected argument, so I'd |
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like to understand more of the reasoning behind it. I'll very likely |
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learn something, as invariably the answer to questions I find myself |
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compelled to ask due to what appears to me a transparently obvious |
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different answer, reveal an angle I hadn't previously considered, |
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sometimes changing my mind entirely. =:^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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