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From: Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o>
To: Ciaran McCreesh <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] Re: ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:11:32
Message-Id: 1688900570.20051023142442@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use by Ciaran McCreesh
1 21.10.2005, 13:51:17, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2
3 > On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 04:37:16 -0700 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
4 > | Also consider the case of media-libs/libsdl. It uses novideo,
5 > | noaudio, and nojoystick, for the simple reason that for the vast
6 > | majority of folks who'd have reason to merge the package, turning OFF
7 > | that functionality makes entirely NO sense and having it OFF by
8 > | default, if the USE flags weren't enabled for some reason, would be
9 > | entirely unintuitive.
10
11 > Not a problem. Just turn on the video, audio and joystick USE flags in
12 > the base profile. Or don't make them USE flags at all...
13
14 These three no* flags should have been killed ages ago. They've never been
15 useful for anything else than causing tons of PEBKAC bugs. :-( This stuff is
16 not optional, period.
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20 Best regards,
21
22 Jakub Moc
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27 ... still no signature ;)