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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Implicit system dependency
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:04:04
Message-Id: 546A8CE8.8010908@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Implicit system dependency by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 On 11/18/2014 12:47 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
2 > Am Dienstag, 18. November 2014, 00:38:36 schrieb hasufell:
3 >
4 > We just don't want to answer a thousand
5 > questions when things break for others. That is the whole point of sane
6 > defaults.
7 >
8
9 Except that sane defaults are not a substitute for correct dependencies
10 (like people omitting USE flag deps on libsdl, because they assume users
11 won't disable them).
12
13 Also, you don't have to answer questions if it's clear that certain
14 settings break stuff and what they break. There are ways to communicate
15 this (even in USE flag descriptions).
16 If you don't communicate it, then you will have to answers questions...

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Implicit system dependency Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>