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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Global USE=gui
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 22:18:57
Message-Id: 22361.60228.455098.152246@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Global USE=gui by "Michał Górny"
1 >>>>> On Thu, 9 Jun 2016, Michał Górny wrote:
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3 >> That would be a policy violation. Packages should pick a reasonable
4 >> default if flags are conflicting, but not force users to
5 >> micro-manage their flags.
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7 > Who did establish that *idiotic* policy and why is he still a
8 > developer?
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10 Michał,
11 You may want to reconsider your tone.
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13 The policy was established when documenting REQUIRED_USE for EAPI 4,
14 and it is based on consensus in bug 353624 [1] and in the gentoo-dev
15 mailing list [2,3].
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17 Ulrich
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20 [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353624#c6
21 [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/69755/focus=69772
22 [3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/69755/focus=69776

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Global USE=gui Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>