Re: [gentoo-dev] crap use flags in the profiles

[Brian Harring <ferringb@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:50:58PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 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
Reasons against sticking a level of indirection in?
More then willing to assume I've been a tool and missed it, but with 
cascaded profiles there really isn't a good arguement against tagging 
a level in so that anyone after it can just use minimal, or derive a 
server profile off of it.
~harring

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