Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

[Aaron W. Swenson]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 01:02:04AM +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> Markos Chandras schrieb:
> > On 18 January 2013 23:29, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
> > <chithanh@g.o> wrote:
> >> Because it should be enabled when the respective packages are
> >> installed, and not depending on the profile the user has selected.
> > Hell, as discussed, the base profile should contain the absolute
> > minimal flags, and "dri" does not appear to be one of these.
> > Having graphics support on such a profile is not expected. IMHO it
> > should be moved to the desktop profile
> >
>
> If you have an absolute minimal system, then none of your packages will
> have the dri flag. So it won't hurt. If you remove the dri flag from the
> default profile, this will break users' setups for no good reason.
>
> Moving to EAPI=1 USE defaults would be an alternative if the dri flag is
> deemed unacceptable for the default profile, but in my opinion a
> pointless exercise as it would change precisely zero systems.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
>
>

And now I'm going to reverse my original vote. The only packages that
have the `dri' USE flag are in the x11-{drivers,libs} categories. As
such, it doesn't matter very much whether or not `dri' is in the base
profile. Better to leave it than remove it seeing as Chí-Thanh says,
it will have less of an impact on the users.

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