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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE Flag Grouping) with -@GROUP goodness
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:38:25
Message-Id: 20041028233716.7c352cf6@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE Flag Grouping) with -@GROUP goodness by Peter Ruskin
1 On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:34:12 +0100 Peter Ruskin
2 <Peter.Ruskin@×××××××××.com> wrote:
3 | On Thursday 28 October 2004 22:52, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 | > This is the main problem with -@BLAH... Too frickin' nasty, and only
5 | > supported because Kurt thinks we shouldn't protect our users from
6 | > doing silly things. I'm inclined to agree... Personally I'm in
7 | > favour of sticking in a big fat "DO NOT USE -@BLAH UNLESS YOU REALLY
8 | > UNDERSTAND IT" in the docs and leaving it at that...
9 | >
10 | > | I guess then that dependencies (like X, what I indicated with a
11 | > | prefix) should not be part of the groups we define.
12 | >
13 | > Oooh heck no. That kinda defeats the point, really...
14 |
15 | I don't understand why you would want X in @KDE or @GNOME - either of
16 | them would ensure you get X anyway.
17
18 USE flags != packages.
19
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