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From: Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global useflag proposals
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 05:12:19
Message-Id: 20121124051133.12785.qmail@stuge.se
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global useflag proposals by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 Duncan wrote:
2 > I'd guess that the global/local USE flag distinction is in practice lost
3 > on most users, and that of those that /do/ know the technical difference,
4 > likely most use make.conf for most local USE flags anyway, at least
5 > setting a system default, from which individual packages may deviate via
6 > package.use. That's certainly the case here.
7
8 I'd guess that you're wrong. That's certainly the case here.
9
10 In practice, we're both using a data set of exactly 1 sample, so our
11 guesses are equally useless.
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14 //Peter