Re: [gentoo-dev] Default useflag cleanups: -apm -foomaticdb -fortran -imlib -motif -oss -xmms

[Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@easyconnect.fr>]

On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 21:23:58 -0400,
Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote:

> There are *many* applications in the tree that do not use ALSA, but
> work only via the OSS emulation.  Removing this is a bad idea and it
> would definitely be blocked by the games team.  Probably half of the
> packages that I maintain require OSS capabilities.

I think the problem is that the "oss" flag is used for (at least) two
slighlty different things:
 - in alsa-driver, it adds OSS capabilities. That's something most
people want, and should be enable by default.
 - in most (all?) other packages, it enables optionnal OSS output.
That's something most people don't use and don't wan't enabled by
default.

Imho, when there is no "good" global value for a flag, it means it
shouldn't be a single global flag (at least, until there is some 
kind of per-package defaults support in Portage).  So, what about a
local "oss-emulation" flag instead in alsa-drivers, which would be the
only one turned on in profiles?  Wouldn't it makes everyone happy?

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TGL.
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