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On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 06:57 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> as one of the new sane features of the next portage-2.1_pre release, we're |
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> looking to cut out use.defaults support |
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I see this as a good and bad thing. Good in one hand that less autojunk |
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would be enabled like python/perl bindings not being added to every |
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program on your system that supports it. Bad in the other hand I see |
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the state of profiles getting worse=more bloated. The autouse itself is |
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not a bad feature or idea if it were used properly. Problem is that |
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it's not been used properly. If it were limited to simple things like |
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just X and the things that actually make sense then it would even be |
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fine to keep and would allow some of the more bloated (default-linux) |
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profiles to be cleaned up. Shrug. I like the existing behavior and the |
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power of deciding for myself when and where I want to take advantage of |
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USE_ORDER= |
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> existing stable users wont be affected as the 2.0.x versions will continue to |
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> carry support for this, but some of you stable users may notice some USE |
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> flags suddenly "disappearing" |
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> to recap, use.defaults inserts USE flags for you based upon what packages you |
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> have installed when you havent declared a preference. for example, if you |
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> have neither '-cups' or 'cups' in your USE (either in your make.conf, |
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> profile, env, whatever), but you do have the net-print/cups package |
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> installed, portage will add 'cups' to your USE |
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> -mike |
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