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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] berkdb and gdbm in global USE defaults
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:51:57
Message-Id: 7043f42e-8c14-777d-83bf-b1faec862315@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] berkdb and gdbm in global USE defaults by William Hubbs
1 On 01/27/2017 05:46 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
2 >> It breaks the highly sought after "Gentoo is about choice" mantra.
3 >> In this case, choice to not care and have the best chosen for me.
4 > Actually it doesn't. In this case the user should make a choice rather
5 > than the maintainer silently making a choice behind their back.
6
7 There is an argument to be made for sane defaults in profiles as well as
8 default IUSE specification in this though to provide a better user
9 experience, but the underlying mechanism should be explicit.
10
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12 Kristian Fiskerstrand
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