Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild design issue regarding some {I need the lib and api only}-DEPENDs

[Georgi Georgiev]

maillog: 19/08/2005-02:59:46(+0000): Luke-Jr types
> On Thursday 18 August 2005 17:01, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> > vanilla - Do not add extra patches which change default behaviour
>
> For features, I would expect individual USE flags-- what if I want one patch,
> but not another?

I agree. Fine-grained control is nice, but I also like the idea of being
able to refuse all non-upstream patches that change default behaviour.
Similarly to what mutt is doing:

!vanilla? ( nntp? ( .... ) some other patches that have no useflag )

> For changing mere defaults, a "gentoo" USE flag seems like it would make
> sense.

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