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On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> Uh, no. USE flags do not control whether packages get installed. They |
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> control whether something which has **optional** support will use it. |
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Yes, I just think it would be more usefull for beginners to have a set |
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of defaults they could use as a suggestion, to be more or less adapted |
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to their real usage. Including something alien to most may convey a |
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message like " don't touch this or else start from zero". |
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> So, for things with optional emboss support, by default the emboss |
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> support will be enabled. Which makes sense, because if you're |
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> installing science apps, you'll probably want it, and if you're not |
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I probably won't, unless I'm a biologist, and a molecular one. |
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OTH, I'll probably want tetex, which is not in the default list. |
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Regards, |
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Jorge Almeida |
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