On Tue, 9 May 2006 20:06:53 -0600 "Justin Findlay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not even the most dogged user is going to read through every flag and > decide if he wants it set or not. I do and set specific sets of flags for each machine I run. It does take about 30 min. and I do have to check for changes - USE flags going away, new ones, every six months or so, but a review is always a good thing. > So, for example, Joe Hacker, who has a laptop and a server can > explicitly unset all multimedia and office/desktop flags in ufed for > his server while explicitly enabling just the server flags he needs > while on his laptop he can enable all development flags and pick the > desktop flags he wants in a matter of seconds rather than minutes > because the desktop flags are all in the same catergory. > > You could also allow users even greater specificity over their flags > with ufed by giving them the option to set flags on a per package > basis, although this may be more effort than it's worth. > You might want to peruse this GLEP - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0029.html It was withdrawn, but perhaps that was because other tasks took a higher priority and this needed to wait for them to complete. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
