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From: Peter Ruskin <Peter.Ruskin@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE Flag Grouping) with -@GROUP goodness
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:34:38
Message-Id: 200410282334.12339.Peter.Ruskin@dsl.pipex.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE Flag Grouping) with -@GROUP goodness by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Thursday 28 October 2004 22:52, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > This is the main problem with -@BLAH... Too frickin' nasty, and only
3 > supported because Kurt thinks we shouldn't protect our users from
4 > doing silly things. I'm inclined to agree... Personally I'm in favour
5 > of sticking in a big fat "DO NOT USE -@BLAH UNLESS YOU REALLY
6 > UNDERSTAND IT" in the docs and leaving it at that...
7 >
8 > | I guess then that dependencies (like X, what I indicated with a
9 > | prefix) should not be part of the groups we define.
10 >
11 > Oooh heck no. That kinda defeats the point, really...
12
13 I don't understand why you would want X in @KDE or @GNOME - either of
14 them would ensure you get X anyway.
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