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On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 18:23 -0400, Dylan Carlson wrote: |
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> I agree with this. It would be more productive to create roles/profiles |
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> for different machines and preferences. They would never be perfect, but |
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> then again, few people have their USE flags perfect because the tree is |
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> always changing in this regard. |
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> This also plays into providing better enterprise support, because we can |
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> create roles for servers and business-only workstations, etc. |
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> I'm not saying USE flag grouping is a bad idea, I just think profiles make |
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> more sense. Although, you could also implement them both. |
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The idea was to simply change the "default" USE flags based on the |
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profile. Someone using the desktop/gnome profile would have things |
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automatically enabled in their USE flags that are not enabled with the |
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standard system profile. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Operations/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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