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 4.54) id 1EqvuZ-00012d-6H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:13:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBQHBvvl013793; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:11:57 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 jBQH7rjm000320 for ; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:07:53 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1EqvpA-00060I-Ls for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:07:52 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Eqvp6-0002dj-47 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:07:48 +0000 Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:07:45 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning Message-ID: <20051226170745.67fa5325@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <1962459692.20051226175717@gentoo.org> References: <43AF7B25.6060803@gentoo.org> <20051226153533.695493e4@snowdrop.home> <1962459692.20051226175717@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0-rc1 (GTK+ 2.8.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_CKApcCQeHr_G/NcxUg_CbL1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 6b58bcc6-a1d1-4805-9421-bd73f52a740a X-Archives-Hash: 0812caed721df62a852da866a3763c79 --Sig_CKApcCQeHr_G/NcxUg_CbL1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:57:17 +0100 Jakub Moc wrote: | alsa - this does not make most sense definitely, this horrible thing | needs to die. Why? On x86, alsa is the least broken sound system, and on x86, the target for the default profiles is desktops, and most desktops have soundcards. | emboss - "Adds support for the European Molecular Biology Open | Software Suite." WTF? Why are we abusing make.defaults for such stuff? Because it makes sense. For any application which has IUSE=3D"emboss", chances are emboss should be enabled. There was a long discussion about this on the -user list a while back where I ended up posting a newbie-friendly explanation of the whole thing. Perhaps you could hunt it down on marc or gmane and post a link here... --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_CKApcCQeHr_G/NcxUg_CbL1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDsCNj96zL6DUtXhERArfNAJ4x/8+a/ov0kk2VnRAz20ImVfEptQCdF7na SUCwoEyO46jhc9uwy25swWk= =RTLJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_CKApcCQeHr_G/NcxUg_CbL1-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list