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From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New local or global USE flags for sdl bindings: noimage & nomixer
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:34:31
Message-Id: 200408232034.27926.carlo@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New local or global USE flags for sdl bindings: noimage & nomixer by Mike Frysinger
1 On Monday 23 August 2004 20:26, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Monday 23 August 2004 02:07 pm, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
3 > > On Monday 23 August 2004 18:15, Mike Frysinger wrote:
4 > > > you can disagree all you want, there is no mechanism in portage to work
5 > > > the other way, making local no* USE flags a neccessity
6 > >
7 > > I think the user has to care for local flags; This shouldn't be a
8 > > problem, since they have descriptions. If you - and others - don't think
9 > > so, then it would be better to add a flag after the description in
10 > > use.local.desc, which indicates the default, instead continuing with this
11 > > annoying enable-no-disable circus.
12 >
13 > not when the default behavior from the package and on every other distro
14 > out there is to have a feature enabled
15 > -mike
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17 Um, I should have better written, "sets the default" instead "indicates".
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20 Carsten
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