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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] berkdb and gdbm in global USE defaults
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:56:33
Message-Id: 72eda703-f4e1-851c-ef1b-0187c98b6ad9@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] berkdb and gdbm in global USE defaults by Mike Gilbert
1 On 01/26/2017 10:33 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 >
3 > Is there any reason to have these USE flags enabled globally?
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5 They are quite uncritical.
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8 > These USE seem pretty package-specific in scope. On my system, they
9 > are used by around a dozen of 1000+ installed packages. I think it
10 > might make sense to migrate them to appropriate IUSE defaults, or
11 > leave them disabled where they do not provide critical functionality.
12 >
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14 +1