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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: per-package default USE flags
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:49:44
Message-Id: 4532D593.2030806@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: per-package default USE flags by Danny van Dyk
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4 Danny van Dyk wrote:
5 >>From my point of view as an architecture dev and releng member: Having
6 > all default USE-flags at one spot (per profile) _is_ easier to maintain.
7 >
8 > Ciaran has a point here: Default useflags have annoyed me in the past
9 > while building releases, and having to change several packages (and
10 > redigesting them) for the snapshot is way more:
11 > * complicated
12 > * time-consuming
13 > * error-prone
14 > than changing them in the profiles directory.
15
16 On the other hand, package.use.mask could be used to mask out those flags
17 in the profile (if necessary).
18
19 Zac
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