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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE groups) and negatives
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:43:52
Message-Id: 20050308224314.388e3793@snowdrop
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE groups) and negatives by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:51:04 -0500 Chris Gianelloni
2 <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote:
3 | On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 08:14 +1300, Jerome Brown wrote:
4 | > How about another option?
5 | >
6 | > 6) Disallow -USE within groups, but allow -@GROUP
7 |
8 | I like this option.
9
10 Ok, yeah, I'll buy that as a definite possibility.
11
12 | Why is X in either GNOME or KDE anyway? It is separate from either,
13 | and should probably have its own group, if necessary.
14
15 Because in general, if a user wants a typical GNOME desktop, they'll
16 want the X USE flag enabled. Or at least, I assume they will...
17
18 | Then again, I don't think that flags should be specified in more than
19 | one group.
20
21 Way too limiting. Some flags are entirely worthwhile in more than one
22 context. Groups aren't primarily for categorisation, they're there for
23 quick USE selection.
24
25 --
26 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools)
27 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
28 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE groups) and negatives Maurice van der Pot <griffon26@g.o>