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On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 23:14:41 +0000 "Stuart Herbert" |
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<stuart.herbert@×××××.com> wrote: |
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| If we're going to do this, then at least we should be implementing a |
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| consistent standard across all ebuilds. F.ex, when SSL and TLS |
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| conflict, we should have a standard saying that all ebuilds will |
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| consistenly favour one over the other. That's much more deterministic |
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| than having some ebuilds prefer SSL, and others prefer TLS (for |
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| example). |
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And what of gtk vs qt, where for many packages one is clearly the |
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preferred choice, but which one this is varies between packages? Do |
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*you* know which GUI is the best option for gvim and why? |
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Heck, it's hard enough figuring out a usable set of USE flags for PHP. |
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If we started dieing for the three zillion or so mutually independent |
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GUI options in gvim7 users would never actually be able to figure out |
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how to install the thing... |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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