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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2017 01:21:56
Message-Id: c3296915-b266-125d-2652-79faef748a96@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults by Ian Stakenvicius
1 On 02/02/2017 06:41 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
2 > Responding here instead of the first time it was posted, just 'cause.
3 >
4 > On 02/02/17 06:35 PM, james wrote:
5 >> "
6 >> I'm not saying that we should have a minimal experience out-of-the-box,
7 >> only that the base profile should result in an effectively-minimal set
8 >> of USE flags. Adding IUSE defaults is essentially adding defaults to the
9 >> base profile."
10 >
11 > Yes. More specifically, it's adding these defaults without setting
12 > the flags globally, thereby not introducing system-wide defaults
13 > across all packages but only those that make sense on a per-package
14 > basis for that package to operate properly.
15 >
16 > IMO this is the effectively minimal-set of use flags we should have.
17
18 I... agree? We should enable the flags that are necessary for the
19 package to work, and we should enable whatever is necessary to avoid
20 REQUIRED_USE roadblocks. That's what I started out by suggesting.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>