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From: Ben Kohler <bkohler@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/default/linux: Add USE="bzip2 lzma zstd" to defaults
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2021 12:20:07
Message-Id: 98183fc5-d979-5ea8-2391-7aacc0d17555@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/default/linux: Add USE="bzip2 lzma zstd" to defaults by Michael Orlitzky
1 On 7/8/21 6:54 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2021-07-07 at 22:01 -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
3 >> Enable these flags by default, since they effectively add no additional
4 >> dependencies:
5 > Why? This list should be getting smaller, not larger.
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7 That's a valid opinion/viewpoint, but it's not a fact.
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10 Someone may have wanted these features to be optional, but that doesn't
11 automatically imply that they should be disabled for everyone out of the
12 box.
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15 Not everyone wants minimalism, some people want the expected features to
16 just be enabled by default.
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19 -Ben

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