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On Monday, 26 December 2005 11:57 am, Jakub Moc wrote: |
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> emboss - "Adds support for the European Molecular Biology Open Software |
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> Suite." WTF? Why are we abusing make.defaults for such stuff? |
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Quote from bug #82428: |
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The reason why I think "emboss" should be enabled by default is that the |
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vast majority of users of packages such as aaindex, CUTG, PRINTS, Prosite, |
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Rebase and TransFac want/expect EMBOSS support for these packages. (These |
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are the only packages with optional EMBOSS support.) For example, although |
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a minority of users have custom scripts to query the Prosite database, |
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most will use the EMBOSS program "patmatmotifs" to interface with it, so |
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having this program available when Prosite is installed is a sensible |
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default. |
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The issue of Stupid/INSANE/crap/crazy/WTF/abusing default USE flags has been |
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brought to this list (and others) before. If you think enabling a certain USE |
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flag is not a good default, explain why, keeping in mind that we cannot |
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enable or disable default USE flags per ebuild, that the default profiles are |
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targeted at desktop users, and that packages should always work correctly |
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out-of-the-box, even if that means pulling in lots of dependencies. If you |
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would like to have a smaller set of default USE flags for a server or a |
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minimal desktop system, then write the corresponding profile and propose it |
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to the relevant arch teams. |
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Regards, |
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Olivier Fisette (ribosome) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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