Holly Bostick wrote: >Walter Dnes schreef: > > >>On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 09:39:15AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote >> >> >> >> >>>Bit I think you're missing the point. These are DEFAULTS, if you >>>really don't want any unnecessary GNOME packages installed, you >>>should be specifically including -gnome in /etc/make.conf. >>> >>> >> The point which I'm trying to make, and everybody else seems to be >>missing, is that *THE DEFAULTS ARE CONSTANTLY CHANGING UNDER OUR FEET*. >>Several weeks ago, I didn't have to put -gnome in USE in /etc/make.conf. >>Now I do. Several months ago, I didn't have to put -ipv6 in USE. Now I >>do. >> >> > >I'm sorry, I don't agree that the defaults are "constantly" changing. >I'm 99% positive that gnome was a default in last year's profiles (as >was kde), and I'm moderately less certain about ipv6, but I do think it >was there. Perhaps your, like my, usage habits have changed, so you have >only now *noticed* these defaults (that's why I'm less certain about >ipv6; I never paid attention to it until I decided to stop using it), >rather than that the defaults themselves have changed. > > >
I think this is accurate, at least for gnome,kde,arts,...although ipv6 seems to be a fairly new addition. What I find happens most often is that a package that I already have installed gets an updated ebuild, which now includes some USE flag that was already set by default. Because I don't have any other packages installed that use that flag, I don't specify it anywhere. But when when the update occurs, now it looks like I have to pull in 5-10 other packages, or change my use flags to exclude it. Adding --newuse to the emerge command gives a good clue when USE flags get updated though. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
