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On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> We understand that some people have goals like 'I want Qt everywhere, |
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> I hate GTK+ so much I'd rather not be able to do anything than have |
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> GTK+ on my system'. We respect them. But we're no longer going to |
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> optimize Gentoo for those people. |
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I think this is the right direction to take. Packages should try to |
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use the appropriate libraries by default (assuming they support more |
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than one), so the plasma user gets apps linked to qt5, and so on. The |
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user shouldn't have to set USE flags to get basic behavior like this - |
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maybe they just pick a profile. |
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If a plasma user installs a package that only supports gtk, then it |
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pulls in gtk. |
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Users shouldn't need a laundry list of global or per-package USE |
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settings if they don't really care which libraries they need. This |
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reasonable default behavior also shouldn't result in every single |
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package pulling in every possible optional dependency as well. It |
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should just use the "right" one. |
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If somebody wants to set USE=-* and micromanage every package, well, |
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that will always work on Gentoo. However, that should not be the use |
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case we optimize for. |
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Rich |
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