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From: Ben Kohler <bkohler@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/default/linux: Add USE="bzip2 lzma zstd" to defaults
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:33:19
Message-Id: 3ef1e7bb-b130-f627-9fc4-08899eca78f6@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/default/linux: Add USE="bzip2 lzma zstd" to defaults by Michael Orlitzky
1 On 7/12/21 12:25 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2 > We've kept things the same level of difficulty for one group of people,
3 > but made them much harder for another. In no situation can anyone who
4 > wants everything enabled have a harder time than 'adds USE="bzip2 lzma
5 > zstd" to make.conf', but everyone else suffers to some degree. That's
6 > discouraging choice overall.
7
8 Point taken.  If IUSE="-flag" were actually common in reality, I'd use
9 it as evidence that MY way is better, but alas.. =)
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12 -Ben