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From: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o>
To:
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 07:27:16
Message-Id: 43AF9ABC.20507@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Monday 26 December 2005 00:09, Doug Goldstein wrote:
3 >
4 >>the USE defaults are a bit INSANE... We need to get rid of some of this
5 >>crap...
6 >
7 >
8 > not really a useful endeavor unless we get something like per-package USE
9 > defaults
10 >
11 > everyone has their own opinion as to what a 'good' or 'sane' default is and
12 > debating each flag is a waste of energy
13 > -mike
14 >
15
16 well there is always USE enabling... (i.e. When I emerge x11-libs/qt,
17 it'll turn on the "qt" USE flag)
18
19 oh, I also forgot to bitch about "fortran" as the crowd in #-dev pointed
20 out.
21
22 --
23 Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o>
24 http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o>