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 4.50) id 1Ed8RH-0001Az-8c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:46:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAIFjKDE018761; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:45:20 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAIFhCaa008768 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:43:13 GMT Received: from vapier by smtp.gentoo.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ed8OO-0002BU-RG for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:43:12 +0000 Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:43:12 +0000 From: Mike Frysinger To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] punting the use.defaults feature Message-ID: <20051118154312.GF24327@toucan.gentoo.org> References: <951460691.20051118163308@gentoo.org> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <951460691.20051118163308@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 3e5d2101-9539-450b-979c-58ec65764a3c X-Archives-Hash: 3dec5173caf6bc1d0c5bdd7892e24125 On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 04:33:08PM +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: > would someone more competent explain to me, why you approached this all wrong ... you were supposed to say something like "can we get rid of this hidden feature please" i see no reason to keep use.defaults around anymore, i think the rest of our config/profile system covers for it adequately and in a manner that doesnt confused people > - this feature even exists it made sense when it was designed ... back in the much, much older days of portage > - why has a mass of things been commited in there recently because they belong there > - confusing users the file has always confused people, whether they be user or dev > - rendering /etc/portage/package.keywords useless (install a dep for one > particular ebuild and enjoy the USE flag enabled globally) unrelated > - causing unwanted results (I did not really install app-text/recode for the > purpose of enabling USE=recode globally and make it clash with half of php USE > flags e.g.) > - causing pointless breakage/bailing out in current ebuilds for users that have > not touched USE flags on their system at all you're confusing "feature" with "bug" ;) -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list