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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Revisions for USE flag changes
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 10:12:06
Message-Id: bba18f14-7408-1bca-3e4b-b2ffd74ec7d7@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Revisions for USE flag changes by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On 08/12/2017 10:52 PM, Duncan wrote:
2 >
3 > How so? Are you arguing that deciding to system-wide switch to/from
4 > pulseaudio, systemd, or gstreamer is nonsense?
5 >
6
7 The meaning of any one USE flag varies widely across packages. I could
8 never say "I want to enable USE=gstreamer" for every package in the
9 tree, because I have no idea what it does for most of them. Setting
10 USE=whatever globally essentially means "make random changes to my
11 system" -- hence my wording.
12
13 The meaning of a USE flag is per-package, so per-package is the only
14 meaningful way to set them.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Revisions for USE flag changes "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@×××.org>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Revisions for USE flag changes Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>