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On Monday 15 December 2003 07:23, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> personally I really dislike this proposal as it adds a lot of complexity |
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> for functionality that would rarely be used. |
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Agreed there. |
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> Also IMO USE flags should not prevent the installation of a package, that's |
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> the job of masking. |
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Many users often get frustrated by the fact that they have specified "-arts", |
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for example, but still get arts installed. If USE flags specified optional |
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and intrinsic functionality, this would not be hard to implement and would be |
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much more intuitive than package masking. |
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On the other hand, if the current package masking was made more intuitive and |
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advertised, there probably wouldn't be anywhere near as many users as there |
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are complaining. |
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Either way, I think that having ebuilds specifiy their intrinsic functionality |
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through USE flags or such some construct has many benefits. |
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Regards, |
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Jason Stubbs |
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