-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:05:37AM -0500, Alec Warner wrote: > >>Could we by chance, mandate some sort of comment field in that file not >>unlike package.mask? > > > what really needs explanation ? i mean, why do you need a comment for say: > aalib media-libs/aalib > canna app-i18n/canna > and every package in there is the same way > > Because I want to know WHY this flag is required to be in use.defaults vs a normal flag? Because maybe flags were added in the past to cover situation X and now that situation is fixed another way and we can pull the flag out of use.defaults.
>>I'm also a bit worried that things were placed in there a while ago and >>are no longer needed, may also be a good idea to date the entries. > > > like what ? dating is pointless imo, use `cvs ann` :P > -mike Right..cvs ann...how do I do that from viewCVS again? :) In the end I just wonder at the use of these things. They are both helpful and bad. Fex, canna is in there, probably to tell the system that I have canna installed. However, I don't think auto-use should be for that purpose. If I want to tell portage that I have canna installed and applications should add canna support, I should set USE=canna. Yeah, I may have to recompile some stuff b/c I forgot to set it prior, but IMHO thats my fault, not the build-systems. Mostly this cropped up from me installing sqlite, for supybot, which needs sqlite for it's karma storage. Fine by me. Then I go to install php and find it wants to pull in some fandangled php->sqlite deal and I go wtf, I don't have that set...ohhh use.defaults... Why the hell is sqlite in use.defaults?!? That kind of deal. There are a lot of odd situations where I think use.defaults is useful ( although there are times where i wish people would just add to make.defaults in profile so I can nuke it there ). I'd just like to know why the flag is being forced on. The same reason why I want to know why a package is p.masked. Alec Warner (Antarus) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQ29t/WzglR5RwbyYAQLvAQ/9ElDpxqcY7Di9ixrcsPv9grY3QjPeE4Ms hgJn0eXj62cQ363AyE6WRyv0I9oHI7KnHwMWOg6aV+o1nfdyAJnA6iXiosoroZLr qs2Px2GYR6tKjKghbOJZAbZHe8zNrKIasRnUrbfQW+5tlVnasXUzNkbFYcb95BZ2 YG7DFteGf8kaB909Yfnz2YXAyh2P7kRiOrtwfzeuBC18RZKoCjEnh+n7VA3s+Z15 DVb2V7ZHYsGauryi0cf6RLRaWCNKFQSZEgwTQUSwadMB2DoW+U3uKsrvANsFvSsK e4iv0SX8544y6J/RzBvP6osx8HWcN+1b/VBOoqynPQ+c/8/nHAOaAYAMnqyMvOOh ndu9bpnHd/+I/+ZcZ7DarZ5Syspg4a1wo+E0bcsgMhkEbKxxhWU1sW5SCabMskvY cXc8PTb2iTg9t0f7HN93ekqMBnBtO3pxd+A3rU23AEDWT7vpNFhCY2yDJ/gKJS3X 9NhAbk4lU2Hd8Rjh7h89KUJRluRkn1ly7cPJBd1GnnRDVSMVTZ1oLGjqzke/nmJR UiR5by5fkt8K/KNh62eY6iu972HmBoJweISuHeFMGbWCj4FFLrSZhq1k/vreubCF OgKpM/Iy5zDYwW6EEHY4H+wt/VPZR/Pi/pQsDqaoFkhbCtTpsI5pilxrPSza8+8q Z5hL1qLdFXk= =21QK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
