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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/default/linux: Add USE="bzip2 lzma zstd" to defaults
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2021 11:54:39
Message-Id: b9023f6c285030b30b29888fec0d9ad252a1eb63.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/default/linux: Add USE="bzip2 lzma zstd" to defaults by Matt Turner
1 On Wed, 2021-07-07 at 22:01 -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
2 > Enable these flags by default, since they effectively add no additional
3 > dependencies:
4
5 Why? This list should be getting smaller, not larger.
6
7 Polluting the base profiles makes running a minimal system that much
8 harder, and only "adds no dependencies" because people omit the
9 corresponding dependencies -- a situation that has to change
10 eventually.
11
12 If they're actually important to a particular package, you should
13 change the defaults for that package.

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