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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/default/linux: Add USE="bzip2 lzma zstd" to defaults
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2021 12:00:06
Message-Id: 22ffff3418ae3a3aa7c691719b63bca509d3d6e5.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/default/linux: Add USE="bzip2 lzma zstd" to defaults by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Fri, 2021-07-09 at 12:05 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 > > > > > >
3 >
4 > Sorry, but that doesn't make sense. These are global USE flags, and
5 > the aim here is to set a _global_ default for them, based on the fact
6 > that these libraries are present on every Gentoo system.
7 >
8 > So if we agree that e.g. zlib should be on by default, then this
9 > belongs
10 > in profiles.
11
12 We don't agree that it belongs on by default. And I never said they
13 shouldn't be enabled in a profile. I said they shouldn't be enabled in
14 the BASE profile. If you enable them in, say, the desktop profile that
15 I have the option of not using, I'm fine with that.

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