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hasufell posted on Fri, 11 Sep 2015 22:34:04 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> USE flags in gentoo are the best and the worst thing at the same time. |
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> They are also mostly the main reason people don't like gentoo, because |
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> USE flags are (for todays situation) pretty much not an appropriate |
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> pattern to reflect real-world configuration. To be more precise... USE |
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> flags are first-class citizens and there is only one layer of them. |
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I agree with the one-layer problem, but just to say, without something |
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like USE flags, despite their single-layer-problem, I'd not be using |
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gentoo. Perhaps better can be done, but in the absence of better at the |
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moment, for better or worse, USE flags do get the job done, and I'd hate |
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to be without either them or an at least equally (if not more) powerful |
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replacement. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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