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From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 19:06:43
Message-Id: 200512262003.48250.carlo@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Monday 26 December 2005 18:07, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > Because it makes sense. For any application which has IUSE="emboss",
3 > chances are emboss should be enabled. There was a long discussion about
4 > this on the -user list a while back where I ended up posting a
5 > newbie-friendly explanation of the whole thing. Perhaps you could hunt
6 > it down on marc or gmane and post a link here...
7
8 Probably you should have provided the link, because the question that comes to
9 mind is, why this dependency is optional at all, when it should be enabled
10 anyways!?
11
12
13 Carsten

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>