On 10/17/06, Stephen Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There is no analogy to be made there. Arguing against carrying profile metadata in IUSE is trying to prevent a design decision, not trying to work around one by forcing extra work on people.
There seems to be very little support for your position (and Ciaran's) that a package's default USE flags are exclusively profile metadata. The only email I found from anyone else in support of your position was from Danny. My apologies to anyone else who I've missed. The broad concensus of the discussion is that a package's default USE flags (as intended by the package maintainer) belong with the package itself, with profiles being able to override these settings as needed. The different positions appear intractable. I suggest there's no real point carrying on with this discussion. Both the official Portage team, and the external Paludis maintainer, have had plenty of feedback via this thread. I suggest that both teams go forward and implement support how they see fit, and (as always) we leave it up to the external Paludis maintainer to decide whether he wants to make Paludis compatible with Gentoo's official package manager's implemented solution or not. Best regards, Stu -- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
