From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KwBYb-0004gY-HJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:10:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E069E02F5; Sat, 1 Nov 2008 08:10:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.146]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EE28E02F5 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2008 08:10:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so553728eyk.10 for ; Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:10:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=TUjLXtF7Y07yksBhMGR1TEezzhOz61QZaw7TYHSNYLU=; b=GUXZTPjFP+Cv7jrVRj4j7dMeiRFof2/9G+hz3IPq++o/h88uoqxL4eV03pNlWlU1zf 2YRsnFklnoakpUL1KtnrTY1FtaW20pzL4YHGHkc54bZmwOaMwjzuX6e/B6aO7XJvVCKc 1aLhu5ETSep0/0V5iK+Gu8Eb1dI7PyNE46V/0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=D675X6ashocyou/laz6p2TBPmCrImZwjK3GZ2bi7nWA1KymZX1qt+Wc0kb7I4IMnLc Jche63oBS6qOLU/2CYn/0y8+l0OjVxL8bNjtYsqxoF4i+fFdy9iayqHG9UzM+apBffEE m9Z6gDDvD5oJsWsMmar27mS34lz7h+esOotUE= Received: by 10.210.46.12 with SMTP id t12mr5603607ebt.114.1225527002596; Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.2? (5ad00ca5.bb.sky.com [90.208.12.165]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t2sm8049113gve.5.2008.11.01.01.09.57 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:10:01 -0700 (PDT) From: David Leverton 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <490B1BCB.1020008@gentoo.org> <1225498689.9587.1.camel@localhost> <490BC2A2.3040801@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <490BC2A2.3040801@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811010809.56962.levertond@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: d296bad7-e985-459c-977c-18462a2f9db3 X-Archives-Hash: c8f8ef286213868b7eb88812a1873516 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*).