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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/default/linux: Add USE="bzip2 lzma zstd" to defaults
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2021 12:35:32
Message-Id: cc00e33423e74f2b354becf24bd432cb70ba5c17.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/default/linux: Add USE="bzip2 lzma zstd" to defaults by Ben Kohler
1 On Thu, 2021-07-08 at 07:19 -0500, Ben Kohler wrote:
2 > On 7/8/21 6:54 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
3 > > On Wed, 2021-07-07 at 22:01 -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
4 > > > Enable these flags by default, since they effectively add no additional
5 > > > dependencies:
6 > > Why? This list should be getting smaller, not larger.
7 >
8 > That's a valid opinion/viewpoint, but it's not a fact.
9 >
10 >
11
12 It is a fact. If you want to enable these features by default in some
13 packages (WHY?), there are better ways to do that now. Adding global
14 defaults into the profiles is sloppy and should be avoided.