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On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 1:14 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:05:03AM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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> > That's at most an argument that USE="-*" should be a theoretically valid |
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> > configuration. It does not mean that the setting makes sense for anyone. |
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> > USE="-*" was maybe a reasonable idea before we had use defaults. |
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> > Now, by setting USE="-*", you deviate from upstream defaults at random |
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> places |
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> > and pointlessly mess up the dependency calculations of python / ruby / |
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> > multilib / ... packages. |
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> > Message to users- if you want a minimum set of useflags, start from the |
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> main |
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> > default profile of your arch. That's what it is for. Everything else, |
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> and you |
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> > sure get to keep the pieces. |
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> Agreed. If you want to turn things off, I would recommend starting your |
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> use with something like: |
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> USE="-foo -bar -bas ..." |
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> so that you turn off the specific things you want to turn off. |
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That's quite infeasible given the number of package-level defaults. It is |
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far easier to parse conflicts when I know anything that has been enabled |
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was explicitly enabled by myself,and not through random-maintainer-X's |
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preference. 3743 package-level defaults of 1474 USEs is just a few too |
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many. Starting with USE="-*" provides sanity. As has been said so many |
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times in this and related threads, if users wanted upstream's defaults, we |
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wouldn't be using a distro with USE. |
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