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On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:43:08 -0400 |
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Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> Placing the default USE flags all in the profiles amounts to profile |
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> duplication where-ever you want to use the ebuilds -> this is |
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> annoying. |
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This is exactly why we have cascading profiles, no? |
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> So that I DON'T need to emerge kde-meta only to find that I needed QT |
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> with opengl support. It's a USE dep; it's not as easily |
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> representable in a default IUSE format; but it's relatively easy to |
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> add opengl to QT's default use in a profile and say "KDE requires qt |
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> with openGL support and most of our QT users are KDE users." There |
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> exists a qualifier there; that Users exist and provided feedback. |
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So you put opengl in a profile package.use for qt. As soon as you |
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invoke the argument that KDE needs it enabled in Qt, it becomes a |
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repository-level issue, not an ebuild-level one. |
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