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Duncan wrote: |
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> hasufell posted on Fri, 11 Sep 2015 22:34:04 +0200 as excerpted: |
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>> USE flags in gentoo are the best and the worst thing at the same time. |
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>> They are also mostly the main reason people don't like gentoo, because |
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>> USE flags are (for todays situation) pretty much not an appropriate |
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>> pattern to reflect real-world configuration. To be more precise... USE |
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>> flags are first-class citizens and there is only one layer of them. |
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> I agree with the one-layer problem, but just to say, without something |
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> like USE flags, despite their single-layer-problem, I'd not be using |
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> gentoo. Perhaps better can be done, but in the absence of better at the |
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> moment, for better or worse, USE flags do get the job done, and I'd hate |
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> to be without either them or an at least equally (if not more) powerful |
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> replacement. |
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+1 |
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If there is not some way to disable/enable things, there is little point |
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is using Gentoo. Actually, Gentoo loses something huge that makes |
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Gentoo different. Besides, how would you tell a package how and what to |
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compile without USE flags?? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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