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From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-releng] cups USE flag forced upon x86/amd64/ppc profiles
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:41:35
Message-Id: 48FB5523.7050202@dbservice.com
1 I came across this issue while inspecting the USE flags that my
2 Playstation3 uses. And I couldn't disable some of those (cups, ipv6 and
3 some others) so I looked at why they were forced upon me. Turns out the
4 top-level make.defaults for ppc, x86 and amd64 (and maybe other
5 architectures as well) add cups to the USE flags. I would understand if
6 cups was added somewhere under the desktop/ profiles, but force it upon
7 all users? Similraly, 'ipv6' is added in the 64bit-userland ppc profile,
8 which means forcing it on for everyone who is running 64bit userland on
9 ppc. I at least have no interest or need having ipv6 support and again,
10 I would understand if ipv6 was only added in one of server/ profiles or
11 some place further down the tree.
12
13 (I brought this issue first to #gentoo-powerpc and I was told I should
14 bring it up in releng. Since I can't talk in the IRC channel, I'm
15 sending the mail here.)
16
17 thanks
18 tom

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Re: [gentoo-releng] cups USE flag forced upon x86/amd64/ppc profiles Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>