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On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 7:13 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 07/20/2018 03:37 AM, Matt Turner wrote: |
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>>> If I want to undo your new flag, I have to set USE="-udev" globally, and |
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>>> that clobbers any important per-package defaults that maintainers have set. |
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>> I understand the concern at least in theory. But can you please give |
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>> me a concrete example of a package where you don't want USE=udev and |
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>> another example of a package where you do? |
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> I... probably don't want USE=udev enabled anywhere. What does it |
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> actually do? I don't know, and the flag description is useless, and I |
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> don't have time to read the source code to every package with the flag. |
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> But, I'm willing to trust the maintainers who have set IUSE="+udev" in |
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> their ebuilds. |
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> As an example of how this works out, I have both sys-apps/hwids and |
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> sys-apps/pciutils built with USE=udev, but media-gfx/gimp built without it. |
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If it adds no additional dependencies, why do you care? |
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