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From: Andrew Muraco <tuxp3@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 18:31:05
Message-Id: 43B03649.6050906@leetworks.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning by "Petteri Räty"
1 Petteri Räty wrote:
2
3 >Bastiaan Visser wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >>On Monday 26 December 2005 09:33, Mike Frysinger wrote:
7 >>
8 >>
9 >>
10 >>>On Monday 26 December 2005 02:24, Doug Goldstein wrote:
11 >>>
12 >>>
13 >>>
14 >>>>well there is always USE enabling... (i.e. When I emerge x11-libs/qt,
15 >>>>it'll turn on the "qt" USE flag)
16 >>>>
17 >>>>
18 >>>which we've already established quite clearly as something we wish to get
19 >>>rid of completely
20 >>>-mike
21 >>>
22 >>>
23 >>aint it worth it to mention "-*" in the handbook ?
24 >>
25 >>
26 >
27 >And then mentioning stuff like pam that almost everyone wants? There are
28 >also things that should be on by default.
29 >
30 >Regards,
31 >Petteri
32 >
33 >
34 Actually, Pam is a pain for me and i always turn it off. But thats just
35 my $.02, alot of the very specific use flags shouldn't be turned on by
36 default. Which ones need to be removed is up to _a_lot_ of discussion.
37
38 -Tux
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