From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E85yw-00071f-Hx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:54:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7P0okSE030269; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:50:46 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7P0n9Jd010090 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:49:10 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E85wf-0000ey-Ci for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:50:17 +0000 Received: (qmail 13980 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2005 20:47:08 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 24 Aug 2005 20:47:08 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] crap use flags in the profiles Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:50:58 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20050825000442.GC1701@nightcrawler> In-Reply-To: <20050825000442.GC1701@nightcrawler> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508242050.58465.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 9a605bb8-e72f-4b7f-94be-4cd431687c91 X-Archives-Hash: 218cda9d1c5c6c2f0c1ee73cecea46b5 On Wednesday 24 August 2005 08:04 pm, Brian Harring wrote: > Again, returning to the USE="-*" arguement, yes, they can go that > route. It's also kind of a crappy arguement dodging out of the fact that > progressive bloat going into what is effectively a base release > profile, when subprofiles would be better suited. not sure what you mean by 'progressive bloat' ... most of those flags have been there since before i was a dev (so like before the 1.2 release) the default profile has always been a 'desktop' target and really i think that's OK by me -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list