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From: Brent Baude <ranger@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding two USE flags to 2008.0's profiles
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 13:50:09
Message-Id: 47A47509.90104@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding two USE flags to 2008.0's profiles by Chris Gianelloni
1 Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > I'm thinking of adding both the bluetooth and usb USE flags to the
3 > 2008.0 profiles for amd64/x86. I'll be adding just usb for everybody
4 > else, unless they want bluetooth, also.
5 >
6 > So why am I asking about this?
7 >
8 > Well, I'm wanting to add it to the "2008.0" profiles, not the "desktop"
9 > or "server" sub-profiles. This means it'll hit pretty much everybody.
10 > That being said, this normally enables hardware support, so I see it as
11 > a good thing.
12 >
13 > If adding "bluetooth" seems to be a bit much, how about just the "usb"
14 > USE flag? After all, my UPS won't work with apcupsd without USE="usb"
15 > on my server... ;]
16 >
17
18 I'm cool with USB enabled. I think pretty much everything I use uses or
19 requires USB. Even the big IBM PowerPC boxes have USB.
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