26.12.2005, 16:35:33, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:09:57 -0500 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | the USE defaults are a bit INSANE... We need to get rid of some of > | this crap...
> No, you just don't understand how they work. It's not an issue of > "is foo important". It's an issue of "for packages with optional foo > support, does it make most sense for foo to be enabled by default?". OK, then: alsa - this does not make most sense definitely, this horrible thing needs to die. emboss - "Adds support for the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite." WTF? Why are we abusing make.defaults for such stuff? eds - please, fix the ebuilds properly instead of throwing the thing on everyone. This has already caused numerous invalid bugs with people wondering why the heck portage wants to emerge gnome with USE="-gtk -gnome" motif - no need to repeat Cardoe's description... and this has caused tons of "cups depends on X" bugs. -- Best regards, Jakub Moc mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG signature: http://subkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCEBA3D9E Primary key fingerprint: D2D7 933C 9BA1 C95B 2C95 B30F 8717 D5FD CEBA 3D9E ... still no signature ;)
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