On 02/12/2012 15:34, Walter Dnes wrote: > Howsabout following the same protocol as with CXX/NOCXX? In the past, > portage would pick a default if neither was specified.
You don't know what you're talking about I'm afraid. Before we had USE defaults (i.e. IUSE="+cxx") we had a nocxx (negative) flags — this was not recommended, but needed because we lacked a way to specify "we want C++ unless otherwise stated" — especially so because sys-devel/gcc[nocxx] would not be able to build or run any C++ program _at all_. Now that we have USE defaults, we have ebuilds with IUSE="+cxx" to specify that C++ support is desired unless the user (or the profile) is explicitly disabling it. Which is exactly what I proposed with moving to IUSE="+server" instead of the current IUSE="minimal" to handle server installation. And this wouldn't go through "two weeks" of notice, but more "one month for stabling", since it would be a revision bump — and that should still give us time enough for this to hit before LibreOffice. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
