Chris Gianelloni posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:39:47 -0400:
> On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 05:17 -0700, Duncan wrote: >> >> I get the point, but if it's not there to be started, it cannot be >> started, thru some fat-fingering on the part of a confused admin trying to >> launch the client, or any other way. USE flags (not split >> packages, I'll absolutely agree there) are the Gentoo way to control that. > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12499 > > Personally, I am completely against it. It makes dependencies a > complete nightmare to work with and would add an immense amount of > complexity for the developers and also for users that aren't going to > need/use this system. > > You have the tools to remove the binaries already. Use them. I didn't realize it had been bugged to death. I guess others have said it before, and everybody's likely very tired of the rehash, so despite my opinions, I'll just shut up, now... =8^] -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
