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On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 11:55 -0800, Michael Marineau wrote: |
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> However changing this will also lead to many supprises and tick off many |
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> users who don't know why a bunch of flags just vanished. How about we |
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> leave the feature in portage but remove auto from USE_ORDER in the |
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> 2006.0 profile and put a note about the changed behaviour the release |
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> announcements. For users who do like the functionality just properly |
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> document the existance of USE_ORDER in the install guide. |
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*applauds* |
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Sensibility as well as an un-breaking upgrade path! Finally we see |
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thought in this area ; ) |
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Documenting this would be great. However, I'd -also- want the |
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IUSE="+auto -bongodrums alpha beta +zeta" to be set, perhaps with a new |
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USE_ORDER variable ":ebuild:" ? |
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The dark magic was a very good and usable approach, however with the |
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growth of our tree, it has seen its use and it may well be time to phase |
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it out in favour of a more fine-grained mechanism. |
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Adding and documenting a "recommended enable" set, would be a great |
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start. It could also be used to fine-tune packages for the GRP set, in |
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order to do partial on/off settings based on the parts that the |
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maintainers consider "good and reasonable" |
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I know one place where I'd love to see this is fex. the various |
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multimedia backends, openssl/gnutls among other such settings. |
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//Spider |
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Tortured users / Laughing in pain |
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See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. |
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