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On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 09:06:33PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 02/02/2017 09:00 PM, Sam Jorna wrote: |
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> > |
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> > Consider: a new user, coming from Ubuntu or Fedora or Windows, starts |
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> > building their system. They start installing packages they want, only to |
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> > find that half of the package isn't there because no USE flags were |
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> > enabled. They have to enable these flags for almost every package they |
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> > want because there's no defaults, you must manually specify anything |
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> > that's not a direct dependency or forced by profile. |
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> Desktop profile!!!!!!!!!! We have a desktop profile!!! Why is the base |
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> profile a better location for new-user-with-a-desktop defaults than the |
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> **desktop** profile? |
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> I'm going crazy. I give up. |
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That would also mean two commits when adding or removing a package with |
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any defaults - one for profiles/, one for the package itself - as well |
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as when flags change for a given package. |
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Also, how would this work with local USE flags as opposed to global |
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flags? Would they be acceptable to have IUSE defaults? |
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Sam Jorna (wraeth) |
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