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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] punting the use.defaults feature
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:03:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051118200342.78e7e2a2@snowdrop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051118194525.GG12982@mail.lieber.org>

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On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:45:25 +0000 Kurt Lieber <klieber@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| We've been using the USE="-* foo bar" method on all of our
| infrastructure servers since as far back as I can remember and have
| never had a problem as a result.
| 
| Not trying to fan the flames one way or the other -- just stating a
| fact.

Sure, because a) you're careful, b) you know what you're doing and c)
it used to be the case that no* USE flags were used for "stuff that
really should usually be on".

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Look! Shiny things!)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
Web             : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-18 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-18 15:33 [gentoo-dev] use.defaults and pointless commits Jakub Moc
2005-11-18 15:37 ` [gentoo-dev] " Jakub Moc
2005-11-18 15:37 ` [gentoo-dev] " Donnie Berkholz
2005-11-18 15:43 ` [gentoo-dev] punting the use.defaults feature Mike Frysinger
2005-11-18 15:59   ` Re[2]: " Jakub Moc
2005-11-18 19:18     ` Drake Wyrm
2005-11-18 19:31       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-11-18 19:45         ` Kurt Lieber
2005-11-18 20:03           ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2005-11-18 20:08       ` Re[2]: " Jakub Moc
2005-11-18 20:31       ` Zac Medico
2005-11-18 23:14       ` Mike Frysinger
2005-11-20 19:55         ` Michael Marineau
2005-11-20 22:23           ` Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
2005-11-20 23:06             ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2005-11-22 18:22               ` Marius Mauch
2005-11-22 19:00                 ` Mike Frysinger

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