Lares Moreau wrote:
On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 12:36 -0600, Joe McCann wrote:
For the record, the eds flag was
added as a default flag because every 3rd gnome user would file bugs or
complain via forums because they installed gnome, found no
evolution-data-server integration, and then be bummed when they had to
recompile packages again. This whole thread seems to have come from a
misunderstanding of how use.defaults work and 20 min of boredom.
I'm relatively ignorant of USE Flag intricacies, so please forgive me if
things don't 'fit'.
Is it feasible and or useful to have a 'meta-flag' that that enables all
the 'necessary' USE flags for a given group of packages? So something
like USE='meta-<flagname>'.
This has the distinction of being a meta-flag, and as such nothing
really gets turned on 'behind the users back', advanced users can look
into it and see what is being enabled by it and USE='-flag' for the
flags the users doesn't need/want, and expert users would just not use
it. This way meta packages like KDE and Gnome can have their own
meta-flag to do what the need with.
It also seems to me that more things will need to 'just work' as our
user-base becomes larger and, on average, less advanced. We could amend
the desktop guide to include something like USE='meta-gnome' to the
gnome section. And similar to other meta-flags.
This may add an unnecessary level of complexity to the use flag system,
but also may be very useful.
If I remember right theres a GLEP (#29) that purposes to do something
very similar (USE Groups I think it was called), but I believe its
withdrawn.
Regards,
Andrew
Tux
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