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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo development <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 20:46:02
Message-Id: CAEdQ38F0b6UdBwsSrzkQick5Q5onxnSPySz2NpDTjVdiiB8uJw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/default/linux: Add USE="bzip2 lzma zstd" to defaults by Matt Turner
1 On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 1:17 PM Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 12:36 PM Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
3 > > If you have a good reason to do it for certain packages, setting per-
4 > > package defaults is the way to do it. The base profile defaults are
5 > > only there because we didn't always have per-package defaults.
6 >
7 > Yes, things are the way they are because of history.
8
9 Sorry, I shouldn't have been flippant here. You're making a legitimate point.