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On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> I'm not saying that we should have a minimal experience out-of-the-box, |
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> only that the base profile should result in an effectively-minimal set |
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> of USE flags. Adding IUSE defaults is essentially adding defaults to the |
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> base profile. Why does dev-java/icedtea try to pull in GTK (and thus X) |
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> on a headless server? That stuff belongs in a desktop profile, not in |
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> the base one. |
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> I don't think minimal should be our default, but it should be |
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> *possible*. It practically isn't so long as people mix uses #1, #3, and |
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> #4. I guess I would also be happy if we outlawed use #1 so that USE="-*" |
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> would be supported. In any case, we should document how to use them. |
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> Having them mean four different things causes confusion. |
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Like others, I think that having IUSE defaults as reflecting upstream |
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makes much more sense, because it makes more sense to put upstream's |
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nuances in the ebuilds than in some of our profiles. I've run systems |
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with -* before, and found it to work okay. These days I have a |
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somewhat more minimal set of disabled USE flags in make.conf, which |
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seems to work fine for my somewhat-minimal headless server, too. |
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Anyway, I don't know how prevalent your #1 is, but making -* more |
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supported seems more attractive to me than the other options. |
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Cheers, |
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Dirkjan |
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