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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] arch-cruft in use.mask makes me angry
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:41:47
Message-Id: 44AB78B1.3040006@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] arch-cruft in use.mask makes me angry by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > can someone remind me why our arch USE flags are in an "opt-out" system rather
3 > than "opt-in" ? instead of adding things like:
4 > dmi
5 > icc
6 > mmx
7 > svga
8 > ...
9 >
10 > to every non-x86 profile, why dont we mask these things in base/use.mask and
11 > then un-mask them in default-linux/x86 ? doesnt that make more sense ?
12
13 Yes. I've tried to do things this way with modular X.
14
15 Thanks,
16 Donnie

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