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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2017 02:07:35
Message-Id: f6a47f68-33b2-4789-4a15-6100d6c01417@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults by Sam Jorna
1 On 02/02/2017 09:00 PM, Sam Jorna wrote:
2 >
3 > Consider: a new user, coming from Ubuntu or Fedora or Windows, starts
4 > building their system. They start installing packages they want, only to
5 > find that half of the package isn't there because no USE flags were
6 > enabled. They have to enable these flags for almost every package they
7 > want because there's no defaults, you must manually specify anything
8 > that's not a direct dependency or forced by profile.
9
10 Desktop profile!!!!!!!!!! We have a desktop profile!!! Why is the base
11 profile a better location for new-user-with-a-desktop defaults than the
12 **desktop** profile?
13
14 I'm going crazy. I give up.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults Sam Jorna <wraeth@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults Patrick McLean <chutzpah@g.o>