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>>>>> On Thu, 08 Jul 2021, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> Why? This list should be getting smaller, not larger. |
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> Polluting the base profiles makes running a minimal system that much |
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> harder, and only "adds no dependencies" because people omit the |
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> corresponding dependencies -- a situation that has to change |
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> eventually. |
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> If they're actually important to a particular package, you should |
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> change the defaults for that package. |
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Sorry, but that doesn't make sense. These are global USE flags, and |
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the aim here is to set a _global_ default for them, based on the fact |
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that these libraries are present on every Gentoo system. |
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So if we agree that e.g. zlib should be on by default, then this belongs |
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in profiles. It is not a package specific default, therefore it doesn't |
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belong in IUSE of hundreds of ebuilds. |
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Ulrich |
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