Eric Polino wrote: > Alright, well I appreciate all the thought and discussion that > exploded about this problem. The pidgin team appreciates it. Though > I'm sorry to say I'm not up to speed with all this Gentoo talk. I > gather that when IUSE defaults come out, the ability to specify > default USE flags on a per package basis will be available in the > ebuild, but other than that I'm somewhat lost as to what was just > talked about. Can someone break it down for a simple user/would like > to be maintainer someday, so that I can have a better cleaner answer > to bring back to the pidgin team.
I believe the short answer is: - Yes, we /could/ do this now in the profile. - Once IUSE defaults are allowed, we can then do it in a different (perhaps better?) way. The question remaining yet that I've seen no answer for yet: Will we do it now in the profile? Or will we instead just have a big notice in the ebuild that says "You may be missing protocols because of your USE flags, please check your USE flags and maybe re-emerge pidgin again if you forgot some protocol you really wanted" At least that's how I read this thread. I'm all for doing it now in the profile, but it's not my package. Perhaps someone from the net-im herd can make this decision? -- Jim Ramsay Gentoo/Linux Developer (rox,gkrellm)
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