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On Thursday 26 August 2004 00:29, Spider wrote: |
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> However, I like the idea, quite a lot really. It would allow us |
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> developers who really know whats best for the user, even if they insist |
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> on "choices" and all that, to throw out a decent default. We do that |
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> for the whole system, and lets face it. Users shouldn't need to make a |
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> lot of choices just to get decent defaults. Choices come after this. |
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It also would make sense in any case. For example, take the java useflag. In |
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mozilla and other webbrowsers it allows running java plugins (makes a lot of |
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sense). However in for example the sys-libs/db ebuild it will build the java |
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bindings. There is no package depending on those bindings and almost no-one |
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will need them (esp. with the new java based db that is native and faster). |
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Currently however we can't make per package choices so we are in a limbo of |
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enabling or disabling the useflag by default. Of course this has been caused |
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in a big part by useflag overloading where one useflags has different |
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meanings to different packages. I think this way would be a good way to |
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battle it (besides package specific explanation/descriptions) |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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