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I recently ran into a REQUIRED_USE constraint that required I select |
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between berkdb and gdbm for an email client. |
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Looking through our profiles, I see we have both berkdb and gdbm |
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enabled "globally". |
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default/linux/make.defaults:USE="berkdb crypt ipv6 ncurses nls pam |
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readline ssl tcpd zlib" |
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releases/make.defaults:USE="acl gdbm nptl unicode" |
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Is there any reason to have these USE flags enabled globally? |
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These USE seem pretty package-specific in scope. On my system, they |
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are used by around a dozen of 1000+ installed packages. I think it |
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might make sense to migrate them to appropriate IUSE defaults, or |
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leave them disabled where they do not provide critical functionality. |
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