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On 13/08/17 11:11, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 08/12/2017 10:52 PM, Duncan wrote: |
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>> How so? Are you arguing that deciding to system-wide switch to/from |
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>> pulseaudio, systemd, or gstreamer is nonsense? |
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> The meaning of any one USE flag varies widely across packages. I could |
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> never say "I want to enable USE=gstreamer" for every package in the |
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> tree, because I have no idea what it does for most of them. Setting |
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> USE=whatever globally essentially means "make random changes to my |
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> system" -- hence my wording. |
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> The meaning of a USE flag is per-package, so per-package is the only |
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> meaningful way to set them. |
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Which is why we have GLOBAL use flags and LOCAL use flags, right?! |
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I'm not sure I'm actually reading this discussion right now?! and I'm |
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*not* a dev ... |
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