Re: [gentoo-dev] punting the use.defaults feature

["Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)" <spider@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 11:55 -0800, Michael Marineau wrote:

> However changing this will also lead to many supprises and tick off many
> users who don't know why a bunch of flags just vanished. How about we
> leave the feature in portage but remove auto from USE_ORDER in the
> 2006.0 profile and put a note about the changed behaviour the release
> announcements.  For users who do like the functionality just properly
> document the existance of USE_ORDER in the install guide.

*applauds*

Sensibility as well as an un-breaking upgrade path!  Finally we see
thought in this area ; )

Documenting this would be great.  However, I'd -also- want the
IUSE="+auto -bongodrums alpha beta +zeta"  to be set, perhaps with a new
USE_ORDER variable ":ebuild:" ?  


The dark magic was a very good and usable approach, however with the
growth of our tree, it has seen its use and it may well be time to phase
it out in favour of a more fine-grained mechanism.

Adding and documenting a "recommended enable" set, would be a great
start.  It could also be used to fine-tune packages for the GRP set, in
order to do partial on/off settings based on the parts that the
maintainers consider "good and reasonable"

I know one place where I'd love to see this is fex. the various
multimedia backends,  openssl/gnutls  among other such settings.



//Spider


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