Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: per-package default USE flags

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:35:10 +0200 Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o> wrote:
| > Which is why I suggested changing Portage's behaviour earlier in the
| > thread. Like it or not, overlays are already getting complex enough
| > that they'd benefit from profile behaviour.
| 
| Because maintaining your own profiles and stacking them and dealing
| with all the related mess is a _lot_ easier that sticking a + before
| foo in IUSE. Right. ;)

You mean, than sticking a + before foo in IUSE in every ebuild, and
ensuring that changes are kept in sync and consistent with the
behaviour of every single existing profile.

| > | Nearest I can figure, you're pressing hard for the view that all
| > | USE flags must come from profiles (by extension user
| > | configuration); 
| > 
| > Yup. Default USE flags are profile dependent data. The sensible
| > default value varies depending upon conditions like arch and system
| > role.
| 
| You are really circular, fix your record player :P

That's not even remotely circular. They're profile dependent, so they
belong in the profile. There is no circular.

| Defaults that makes sense in profiles can and will stay there and
| noone's damn forcing you to change it. We are talking about
| per-package (or per-ebuild even) stuff here, which is a feature that
| has been missing for ages.

Which is solved quite happily in the profiles by package.use, and
without the problems associated with the IUSE solution.

| Sigh...

You know Jakub, you'd be a lot less stressed if you sat down and
thought about what was being discussed before posting.

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