Re: [gentoo-dev] iuse defaults example

[Thomas de Grenier de Latour]

On 2007/07/10, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:

> for some flags yes ... for others, i dislike that idea for the exact
> same reason for the other profile-based suggestions: these defaults
> should live in the ebuild, not the profile

I agree that putting per-package defaults in ebuilds is far more
elegant than putting them in profiles.  

My point is just that it doesn't work that well with the USE_ORDER that
have been chosen. Even keeping the "-* in make.conf" case appart
(obviously my opinion on how it should behave was not widely shared, i
can live with that), there is still a problem with -* in make.defaults
files: the day you switch from IUSE="nocxx" to IUSE="+cxx", will you
remember that, as a consequence, you have to fix hardened/2.6/minimal
profile? 

And also, in bug #61732 there is this comment from Zac about "-foo" not
being supported because pkginternal is at the bottom of the stack.
Imho, that's missing a great opportunity to make users' life a bit
easier... Take the "gtk" flag, which is on by default in usual desktop
profiles, but as the drawback to trigger GTK+-1.2 installation just for
a few CLI programs which comes with an optional obsolete GUI: wouldn't
it be nice if said packages could state IUSE="-gtk", so that the
default behavior would be to install only GTK+-2.x GUIs?  I'm pretty
sure it would save a tenth of /etc/portage/package.use entries for many
users.

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