Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

[David W Noon]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:20:02 +0100, Grant Edwards wrote about
[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?:

>On 2010-11-16, David W Noon <dwnoon@××××××××.com> wrote:
[snip]
>> No, the USE flags are purely a Portage thing.  The USE flags
>> determine which options are enabled/disabled when the ebuild runs the
>> equivalent of a ./configure script.  The defaults for the USE flags
>> are part of the ebuild, completely separate from upstream.
>
>But if the developers are required to duplicate the upstream
>"out-of-box" configuration,

They aren't.  They are required to produce a stable package for Gentoo.

>then the defaults for the USE flags are
>determined by upstream decisions, not by the developers.

Again, the defaults are chosen for stability with Gentoo first;
secondly, there are no fixed defaults -- or "out-of-box" configuration
-- from upstream, as the USE flags are simply parameterizing
the ./configure script via autotools.

The only distributions that have fixed configurations are the binary
ones.  Any package that is built from source -- and under Gentoo that
means almost everything -- is intrinsically configurable by the person
building the binaries.  To extend your "out-of-box" analogy: source code
doesn't arrive in a box, but binaries (.rpm, .deb, etc.) do.
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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dwnoon@××××××××.com (David W Noon)
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