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On 03/02/17 08:43 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 02/03/2017 08:21 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: |
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>>> How about rather changing our defaults to satisfy the minimalists who |
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>>> don't mind drastically reduced functionality and usability in pursuit |
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>>> of "minimalism" we just strive to make USE="-*" mostly usable, so the |
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>>> minimalists can get what they want, while still having sane defaults. |
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>> I'm in favour of this too -- I know we don't "officially" support |
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>> USE="-*" but I think we should still strive to make it work with |
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>> minimal effort to end-users -- that effort being mainly setting |
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>> whatever is necessary for REQUIRED_USE resolution. |
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> It will never be easy, because USE="-*" overrides your profile. What |
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> people want is a way to have USE="-*" apply between the base profile and |
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> the one that they select. |
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ok you lost me. Could you provide an explicit example of what you |
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would want to see enabled in the profile (while everything else is |
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disabled) that you don't get when USE="-*" is set? |
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It's sounding more and more like you just want to be able to turn off |
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all IUSE defaults, and you can effectively do that by changing the USE |
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order can't you? |
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