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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:53:13
Message-Id: 20051021125117.76ce1c72@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 04:37:16 -0700 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
2 | Also consider the case of media-libs/libsdl. It uses novideo,
3 | noaudio, and nojoystick, for the simple reason that for the vast
4 | majority of folks who'd have reason to merge the package, turning OFF
5 | that functionality makes entirely NO sense and having it OFF by
6 | default, if the USE flags weren't enabled for some reason, would be
7 | entirely unintuitive.
8
9 Not a problem. Just turn on the video, audio and joystick USE flags in
10 the base profile. Or don't make them USE flags at all...
11
12 --
13 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
14 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
15 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] Re: ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o>