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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] arch-cruft in use.mask makes me angry
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 01:58:18
Message-Id: 200607042154.22942.vapier@gentoo.org
1 can someone remind me why our arch USE flags are in an "opt-out" system rather
2 than "opt-in" ? instead of adding things like:
3 dmi
4 icc
5 mmx
6 svga
7 ...
8
9 to every non-x86 profile, why dont we mask these things in base/use.mask and
10 then un-mask them in default-linux/x86 ? doesnt that make more sense ?
11 -mike

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