>>>>> On Thu, 08 Jul 2021, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Why? This list should be getting smaller, not larger.
> Polluting the base profiles makes running a minimal system that much > harder, and only "adds no dependencies" because people omit the > corresponding dependencies -- a situation that has to change > eventually. > If they're actually important to a particular package, you should > change the defaults for that package. Sorry, but that doesn't make sense. These are global USE flags, and the aim here is to set a _global_ default for them, based on the fact that these libraries are present on every Gentoo system. So if we agree that e.g. zlib should be on by default, then this belongs in profiles. It is not a package specific default, therefore it doesn't belong in IUSE of hundreds of ebuilds. Ulrich
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