Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Global USE=gui

[NP-Hardass]

On 06/02/2016 05:21 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
>>
>> We understand that some people have goals like 'I want Qt everywhere,
>> I hate GTK+ so much I'd rather not be able to do anything than have
>> GTK+ on my system'. We respect them. But we're no longer going to
>> optimize Gentoo for those people.
>>
>
> ++
>
> I think this is the right direction to take.  Packages should try to
> use the appropriate libraries by default (assuming they support more
> than one), so the plasma user gets apps linked to qt5, and so on.  The
> user shouldn't have to set USE flags to get basic behavior like this -
> maybe they just pick a profile.
>
> If a plasma user installs a package that only supports gtk, then it
> pulls in gtk.
>
> Users shouldn't need a laundry list of global or per-package USE
> settings if they don't really care which libraries they need.  This
> reasonable default behavior also shouldn't result in every single
> package pulling in every possible optional dependency as well.  It
> should just use the "right" one.
>
> If somebody wants to set USE=-* and micromanage every package, well,
> that will always work on Gentoo.  However, that should not be the use
> case we optimize for.
>

So, at this juncture, is it worth considering a proper abstraction for 
"suggests" and "optional" and/or "preferred" (for USE and *DEPEND) 
rather than (or in addition to) USE="gui"?

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