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On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:03:42 +0100 Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o> |
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wrote: |
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| On Monday 26 December 2005 18:07, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > Because it makes sense. For any application which has IUSE="emboss", |
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| > chances are emboss should be enabled. There was a long discussion |
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| > about this on the -user list a while back where I ended up posting a |
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| > newbie-friendly explanation of the whole thing. Perhaps you could |
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| > hunt it down on marc or gmane and post a link here... |
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| Probably you should have provided the link, because the question that |
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| comes to mind is, why this dependency is optional at all, when it |
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| should be enabled anyways!? |
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Because there are legitimate reasons for turning it off. They're just |
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significantly less likely to occur than the reasons for wanting it |
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turned on. |
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And of course, if you don't use any apps that have IUSE="emboss", the |
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default value of the USE flag is entirely irrelevant to you. |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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