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On 07/19/18 23:04, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> No I'm not. I'm saying add them per-package, because it's a better |
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> design. We have package.use in profiles now, not just IUSE defaults. |
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> Global defaults have problems: |
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> * They can't be undone. It's next to impossible for me to undo |
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> USE=udev when set in a profile that is inherited by all others. |
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> * USE=udev means different things for different packages. You think it |
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> "makes udev work" or whatever, but nobody has any idea what it does |
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> for half of the packages that use it. The meaning is package- |
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> specific, so the default should be package-specific. |
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> * They're easy to set, but hard do unset when you realize you were |
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> wrong a year from now. |
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> If you really want to enable it globally after being told that it's bad |
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> engineering and downright annoying, go do it in a profile that I can |
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> avoid and not "linux". |
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I believe you're arguing against profile global USE in general, can you |
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start a new thread for that if you believe it's worth discussing? |
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We do have global USE in profiles now and I believe that the sane |
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default for linux profiles is to have udev support globally. |
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-Ben |
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