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On Monday 08 June 2009 16:12:23 Maciej Mrozowski wrote: |
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> I'd like to raise your attention on problem of in my opinion overusing IUSE |
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> defaults in various packages. |
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> Currently there seems to be no policy whatsoever at least advising when |
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> it's appropriate to add +<useflag> and when not, so it's just up to |
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> developer's taste. |
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the loose policy is to have the defaults follow what upstream intended. |
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otherwise, it is left up to the maintainer on purpose -- they're supposed to |
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know best. |
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> While it usually doesn't do any particular harm (but I guess security and |
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> prefix/alt team won't agree on this) - insanely enabling everything by |
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> default is not the best idea in my opinion. |
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> Of course we need an example. Let's have a look at latest stable media- |
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> video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p20090322 ebuild: |
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mplayer and friends is a bad example. upstream wants a lot of things enabled |
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by default. |
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> But thats's not the point - the point is, Gentoo probably needs some policy |
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> to advise, when some newly added USE flags are appropriate to be enabled by |
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> default. |
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we already have one |
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-mike |
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