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From: Wernfried Haas <amne@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Default useflag cleanups: -apm -foomaticdb -fortran -imlib -motif -oss -xmms
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:29:14
Message-Id: 20060605192238.GA3031@superlupo.rechner
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Default useflag cleanups: -apm -foomaticdb -fortran -imlib -motif -oss -xmms by Stefan Schweizer
1 On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 07:03:57PM +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote:
2 > today I would like to propose a few default keywords for removal. They are
3 > outdated and no longer needed on current systems:
4
5 What do you want to remove, the use flags themselves or just turn them
6 off in the profiles?
7
8 > -xmms - xmms depends on gtk-1 and has been superseeded by audacious/bmpx
9
10 xmms is still in the tree? People (ok, at least me ;-) ) still use it?
11 I don't mind if it has to go and there are alternatives, but why would
12 you just want to remove its use flag and not the package itself?
13 If it needs to go, either dump all of it or nothing.
14
15 cheers,
16 Wernfried
17
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