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Hans de Graaff posted on Mon, 21 Jan 2013 08:46:59 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> On Sun, 2013-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: |
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>> We can either set it in the base profile, then there is no need for |
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>> IUSE="+dri". Or we can set it in every single ebuild that has the dri |
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>> flag. I prefer the former because it reduces our maintenance burden. |
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> [I]t sounds like you want [...] use IUSE="+dri". This would also help |
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> all the people starting out with "-*". |
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?? How would setting the default using IUSE="+dri" in the ebuilds help |
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those starting out with -*? -* does just that, hard-setting all USE |
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flags as disabled, unless they're specifically enabled later in the USE |
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flag configuration. Thus, it's the same effect on default-enabled-flags, |
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regardless of whether they're default-enabled in the profile or in the |
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ebuilds. |
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[TLDR folks can stop at that.] |
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FWIW, based on this discussion I wondered just how much effect USE- |
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defaults, both the profile and ebuild sort, were having here. Thus, I |
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set -* myself, and have been working thru the changes one at a time. |
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I've a couple packages yet to deal with ATM, but after I resolved enough |
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of the required-use issues for emerge --pretend --newuse @world to even |
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spit out a remerge list, I started with 40-some packages with --newuse |
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changes. More or less what I expected... |
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Most of the changes I've been able to resolve by either adding the flags |
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to the use file sourced by my make.conf, or by deciding I didn't need the |
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flag enabled anyway, and remerging the package without it. I've only |
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added a few flags to package.use, as most of them were used by only the |
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affected packages anyway, at least based on the packages I have installed. |
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FWIW2, I'm /thinking/ about setting up my own profile entirely... or |
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setting it up to cascade only from my custom-selected components, at |
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least, keeping the profile-base for the global package-mask, and perhaps |
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the amd64-no-multilib stuff. I already have zero packages in @system as |
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I've negated all the entries that would otherwise be there, and I'm in |
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the process of zeroing out my dependence on profile default-use... When |
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I'm done with that, I'll take a look at the rest and see... |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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