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On Tue, 9 May 2006 20:06:53 -0600 |
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"Justin Findlay" <jfindlay@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Not even the most dogged user is going to read through every flag and |
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> decide if he wants it set or not. |
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I do and set specific sets of flags for each machine I run. It does take |
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about 30 min. and I do have to check for changes - USE flags going away, |
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new ones, every six months or so, but a review is always a good thing. |
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> So, for example, Joe Hacker, who has a laptop and a server can |
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> explicitly unset all multimedia and office/desktop flags in ufed for |
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> his server while explicitly enabling just the server flags he needs |
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> while on his laptop he can enable all development flags and pick the |
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> desktop flags he wants in a matter of seconds rather than minutes |
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> because the desktop flags are all in the same catergory. |
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> You could also allow users even greater specificity over their flags |
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> with ufed by giving them the option to set flags on a per package |
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> basis, although this may be more effort than it's worth. |
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You might want to peruse this GLEP - |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0029.html |
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It was withdrawn, but perhaps that was because other tasks |
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took a higher priority and this needed to wait for them to complete. |
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Bob |
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