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On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 07/19/2018 05:51 PM, Ben Kohler wrote: |
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>> Hello, |
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>> I'd like to propose adding USE=udev to our linux profiles (in |
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>> profiles/default/linux/make.defaults probably). This flag is already |
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>> enabled on desktop profiles but it also affects quite a few packages |
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>> used on non-desktop linux systems. |
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>> ... |
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>> Any objections to this idea? |
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> Please add defaults per-package, only where they make sense. Enabling |
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> flags globally creates a huge headache for people that want them off. |
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> If I want to undo your new flag, I have to set USE="-udev" globally, and |
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> that clobbers any important per-package defaults that maintainers have set. |
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I understand the concern at least in theory. But can you please give |
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me a concrete example of a package where you don't want USE=udev and |
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another example of a package where you do? |
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Grepping the tree, I see the following packages pulled in with |
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USE=udev predominantly: |
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virtual/libudev |
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virtual/libgudev |
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virtual/udev |
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A few others have some additional dependencies enabled with USE=udev: |
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app-emulation/libvirt: x11-libs/libpciaccess |
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dev-qt/qtgui/qtgui: sys-kernel/linux-headers |
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gnome-base/gnome-desktop: sys-apps/hwids |
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media-gfx/iscan-data: dev-libs/libxslt, media-gfx/sane-backends |
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sys-auth/consolekit: x11-libs/libdrm |
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sys-fs/dosfstools: virtual/pkgconfig |
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What dependency are you trying to avoid? Or is it just a design issue? |
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