Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning

[Dale]

Mike Frysinger wrote:

>On Monday 26 December 2005 00:09, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>
>
>>the USE defaults are a bit INSANE... We need to get rid of some of this
>>crap...
>>
>>
>
>not really a useful endeavor unless we get something like per-package USE
>defaults
>
>everyone has their own opinion as to what a 'good' or 'sane' default is and
>debating each flag is a waste of energy
>-mike
>
>
I'm not a dev but I can see both sides.  I learned why some things are 
being pulled in that I couldn't figure out.  I use KDE but do not want 
Gnome and it appears that I have some gnome stuff installed and didn't 
know it, because of the USE line.  I guess they are in there because of 
people that are still noobies and don't know any better, like me maybe.

Maybe there needs to be more info about what is in the defaults so 
people will know.  I see now that I need to put -gnome in mine.  I have 
a lot of gnome stuff installed and had no clue I needed -gnome until I 
read this.

Just my $.02 worth, which ain't much.

Dale
:-)


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