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Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:08:45AM -0500, Alec Warner wrote: |
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>>Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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>>>On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:05:37AM -0500, Alec Warner wrote: |
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>>>>Could we by chance, mandate some sort of comment field in that file not |
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>>>>unlike package.mask? |
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>>>what really needs explanation ? i mean, why do you need a comment for say: |
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>>>aalib media-libs/aalib |
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>>>canna app-i18n/canna |
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>>>and every package in there is the same way |
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>>Because I want to know WHY this flag is required to be in use.defaults |
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>>vs a normal flag? Because maybe flags were added in the past to cover |
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>>situation X and now that situation is fixed another way and we can pull |
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>>the flag out of use.defaults |
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> i think you're confusing use.defaults with the USE in profile make.defaults |
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> use.defaults is there to simply automatically enable USE flags if a package is |
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> installled, nothing more and nothing less |
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>>>>I'm also a bit worried that things were placed in there a while ago and |
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>>>>are no longer needed, may also be a good idea to date the entries. |
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>>>like what ? dating is pointless imo, use `cvs ann` :P |
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>>Right..cvs ann...how do I do that from viewCVS again? :) |
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> well, if i had to guess, i'd say try clicking the link that says '(annotate)' |
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>>In the end I just wonder at the use of these things. They are both |
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>>helpful and bad. |
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> if you want to start a thread about punting use.defaults, then do it ... |
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> trying to slowly bleed the file of entries is dumb |
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> -mike |
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I know what use.defaults does. I'm saying that: |
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A. use.defaults exists for a reason, and developers are using it to |
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enable functionality. |
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B. Turning off a flag in use.defaults may cause undesired behavior. |
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If the developed enabled a flag in there, I generally think that the |
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developer knows they are doing, maybe thats a bad assumption? :) If |
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there are no consequences to removing auto-use from USE_ORDER I'll do it |
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( I do similar things on my lone server ). If I am going to over-ride a |
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flag in use.defaults, I know what it does, but I don't know what it |
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affects. Obviously the flag was added to use.defaults for a reason, |
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either because it's required for something, or it adds value to the |
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system, or something I can't think of ;) I simply want to know what |
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that reason is. If it doesn't do anything useful, then yeah, I'd like |
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to see the flag punted from use.defaults because then it's just fluff. |
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- -Alec Warner (Antarus) |
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