Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: How a proper server profile should look like
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:22:08
Message-Id: CAB9SyzSoUBneH9fXRxb5N8C9mOh3A8CxYrb8FmL4fRrb3EiWZg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: How a proper server profile should look like by Rich Freeman
1 On 22 January 2013 03:28, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Dustin C. Hatch <admiralnemo@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> The package defaults have gotten out of hand, in my opinion. I use
4 >> default/linux/amd64/10.0 on all my machines and my /etc/portage/package.use
5 >> directories have dozens of -flag entries for packages with ridiculous
6 >> defaults, and almost none that come from the profile. I'm considering
7 >> removing pkginternal from USE_ORDER.
8 >
9 > And this is the problem with having the default profile be really
10 > minimal. It just moves the problem into per-package defaults that are
11 > much more painful to override.
12
13 No offense, but that's nonsense. You override it the exact same way.
14
15 --
16 Cheers,
17
18 Ben | yngwin
19 Gentoo developer
20 Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin

Replies