From: David Leverton <levertond@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Flags to punt (including: kerberos USE flag)
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 08:09:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811010809.56962.levertond@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <490BC2A2.3040801@gentoo.org>
On Saturday 01 November 2008 02:44:50 Josh Saddler wrote:
> emboss - Seriously. Who needs the European Biology Open Software Suite
> on a *desktop* oriented system?
That flag is only used by a few sci-biology packages, so if you don't have any
of those installed, it doesn't matter whether the flag is on or off. IIRC
the argument for having it on was that the majority of people who /do/ use
those packages will want it.
I suppose one could say that it should be set in IUSE or profile package.use
instead, but IMHO, if there are enough packages using it to justify making it
a global flag in the first place, and all of them need the same default, it
makes sense to set the default globally (*cough*ocamlopt*cough*).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-01 8:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-31 14:52 [gentoo-dev] kerberos USE flag Doug Goldstein
2008-10-31 18:09 ` Marius Mauch
2008-10-31 18:17 ` Doug Goldstein
2008-10-31 18:20 ` Dawid Węgliński
2008-10-31 18:41 ` Doug Goldstein
2008-10-31 19:01 ` Dawid Węgliński
2008-10-31 18:18 ` Jeremy Olexa
2008-10-31 20:01 ` Michael Hammer
2008-10-31 21:50 ` Joe Peterson
2008-11-01 0:18 ` Mart Raudsepp
2008-11-01 0:22 ` Andrew Gaffney
2008-11-01 0:46 ` Mart Raudsepp
2008-11-01 2:44 ` [gentoo-dev] Flags to punt (including: kerberos USE flag) Josh Saddler
2008-11-01 2:57 ` Olivier Crête
2008-11-01 8:09 ` David Leverton [this message]
2008-11-03 4:29 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2008-11-03 20:27 ` David Leverton
2008-11-05 17:00 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-11-13 17:43 ` [gentoo-dev] " Tobias Scherbaum
2008-11-04 14:56 ` [gentoo-dev] kerberos USE flag Doug Goldstein
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