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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] punting the use.defaults feature
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:09:20
Message-Id: 20051118200342.78e7e2a2@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] punting the use.defaults feature by Kurt Lieber
1 On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:45:25 +0000 Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o>
2 wrote:
3 | We've been using the USE="-* foo bar" method on all of our
4 | infrastructure servers since as far back as I can remember and have
5 | never had a problem as a result.
6 |
7 | Not trying to fan the flames one way or the other -- just stating a
8 | fact.
9
10 Sure, because a) you're careful, b) you know what you're doing and c)
11 it used to be the case that no* USE flags were used for "stuff that
12 really should usually be on".
13
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