Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: How a proper server profile should look like

[Rich Freeman]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote:
> On 22 January 2013 03:28, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Dustin C. Hatch <admiralnemo@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> The package defaults have gotten out of hand, in my opinion. I use
>>> default/linux/amd64/10.0 on all my machines and my /etc/portage/package.use
>>> directories have dozens of -flag entries for packages with ridiculous
>>> defaults, and almost none that come from the profile. I'm considering
>>> removing pkginternal from USE_ORDER.
>>
>> And this is the problem with having the default profile be really
>> minimal.  It just moves the problem into per-package defaults that are
>> much more painful to override.
>
> No offense, but that's nonsense. You override it the exact same way.
>

Indeed, you're correct.  It is not necessary to do what Dustin
suggested to disable package use-defaults - if you set -foo in
make.conf it will apply to all packages even if it is a use-default.

Rich