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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New local or global USE flags for sdl bindings: noimage & nomixer
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:26:37
Message-Id: 200408231426.30735.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New local or global USE flags for sdl bindings: noimage & nomixer by Carsten Lohrke
1 On Monday 23 August 2004 02:07 pm, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
2 > On Monday 23 August 2004 18:15, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > you can disagree all you want, there is no mechanism in portage to work
4 > > the other way, making local no* USE flags a neccessity
5 >
6 > I think the user has to care for local flags; This shouldn't be a problem,
7 > since they have descriptions. If you - and others - don't think so, then it
8 > would be better to add a flag after the description in use.local.desc,
9 > which indicates the default, instead continuing with this annoying
10 > enable-no-disable circus.
11
12 not when the default behavior from the package and on every other distro out
13 there is to have a feature enabled
14 -mike
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