Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 15:42:51
Message-Id: 7724d447-2f16-5f2b-b1ae-14f7ed123680@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles by Matt Turner
1 Matt Turner schrieb:
2
3 >> As an example of how this works out, I have both sys-apps/hwids and
4 >> sys-apps/pciutils built with USE=udev, but media-gfx/gimp built without it.
5 >
6 > If it adds no additional dependencies, why do you care?
7
8 USE flags are supposed to control features, not dependencies. Exceptions are
9 meta-packages.
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11 If someone wants to have a lean system not just concerning disk space, that
12 would include disabling such code.
13
14 Best regards,
15 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn