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On Mon, 2021-07-12 at 10:46 -0500, Ben Kohler wrote: |
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> Nobody is "disabling choice" here, a change in defaults doesn't remove |
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> your ability to choose something else. |
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I think what you're suggesting is that default-on is not any worse for |
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choice than default-off, since both can be changed? |
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Consider the one legitimate example given: sys-apps/kmod. How can we |
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disable lzma for everything except packages that have +lzma defaulted? |
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(Ignoring the open pull request, that is usually done for a good |
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reason.) In other words, how do people undo this patch, without |
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potentially breaking their systems? |
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I hesitate to speak for anyone else, but all I personally want is to be |
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reasonably sure what my configurations are going to do without having |
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to list every individual package and USE flag explicitly. I don't think |
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it's written in stone anywhere, but the repo relies on the fact that |
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USE flags are disabled by default. As a result, it's much easier for |
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users to add things to USE than it is to remove them. |
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If we assume that most IUSE default-ons exist for a good reason |
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(roughly true), then you can imagine two groups of people. |
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Person 1: wants everything enabled by default. |
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Person 2: wants only important things (determined by chosen profile and |
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IUSE defaults) enabled by default. |
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Before the patch, |
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Person 1: adds USE="bzip2 lzma zstd" to make.conf. Requires no ongoing |
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maintenance. |
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Person 2: does nothing. |
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After the patch, |
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Person 1: does nothing. |
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Person 2: lists a hundred different packages in all of his package.use |
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files, after checking each of them to see which ones have important |
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IUSE defaults. Requires ongoing maintenance as new packages are added. |
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We've kept things the same level of difficulty for one group of people, |
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but made them much harder for another. In no situation can anyone who |
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wants everything enabled have a harder time than 'adds USE="bzip2 lzma |
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zstd" to make.conf', but everyone else suffers to some degree. That's |
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discouraging choice overall. |
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