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From: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global useflag proposals
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 06:11:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121124051133.12785.qmail@stuge.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2012.11.24.04.40.29@cox.net>

Duncan wrote:
> I'd guess that the global/local USE flag distinction is in practice lost 
> on most users, and that of those that /do/ know the technical difference, 
> likely most use make.conf for most local USE flags anyway, at least
> setting a system default, from which individual packages may deviate via 
> package.use.  That's certainly the case here.

I'd guess that you're wrong. That's certainly the case here.

In practice, we're both using a data set of exactly 1 sample, so our
guesses are equally useless.


//Peter


      reply	other threads:[~2012-11-24  5:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-23 14:03 [gentoo-dev] New global useflag proposals Tomáš Chvátal
2012-11-23 14:06 ` Samuli Suominen
2012-11-23 14:16   ` Alexis Ballier
2012-11-23 20:16 ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
2012-11-23 21:11   ` Alexis Ballier
2012-11-24  4:40     ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-11-24  5:11       ` Peter Stuge [this message]

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