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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New local or global USE flags for sdl bindings: noimage & nomixer
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:40:54
Message-Id: 200408231140.48456.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New local or global USE flags for sdl bindings: noimage & nomixer by Carsten Lohrke
1 On Monday 23 August 2004 11:14 am, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
2 > On Monday 23 August 2004 16:53, Matthieu Sozeau wrote:
3 > > Hi,
4 > > still on USE flags, I want to either add 'noimage' and 'nomixer' local
5 > > USE
6 >
7 > Please stop with these no* use flags. We have use.defaults in each profile,
8 > if a flag should not be enabled by default.
9
10 package-specific USE flags benefit from no* USE flags, especially while
11 dealing with functionality that most people want
12
13 global scope USE flags though should be setup through use.defaults though
14
15 recap:
16 global no* USE == bad
17 local no* USE == ok sometimes
18 -mike
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