From: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 17:15:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130528221540.GA2053@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130528210737.42695fc9@gentoo.org>
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On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:07:37PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> For the others, how large is the benefit of having them switchable?
> At least some of them look like something that wouldn't hurt people if
> it was always-built.
The dev manual states that use flags are to control optional
dependencies and _settings_ which a user may reasonably want to select
[1].
Since the developer gives us the ability to control this with configure
switches, I feel pretty strongly that we should give the user that
control.
William
[1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/index.html
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-28 22:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-27 20:38 [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd Anthony G. Basile
2013-05-28 6:01 ` Tony "Chainsaw" Vroon
2013-05-28 11:30 ` Anthony G. Basile
2013-05-28 6:24 ` René Neumann
2013-05-28 15:35 ` Michał Górny
2013-05-28 18:57 ` Anthony G. Basile
2013-05-28 19:07 ` Michał Górny
2013-05-28 19:22 ` Anthony G. Basile
2013-05-28 20:18 ` Michał Górny
2013-05-31 13:23 ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
2013-05-28 22:15 ` William Hubbs [this message]
2013-05-30 11:23 ` Ralph Sennhauser
2013-06-01 17:41 ` William Hubbs
2013-06-01 18:00 ` Michał Górny
2013-06-01 20:20 ` William Hubbs
2013-06-01 20:26 ` Michał Górny
2013-06-02 0:21 ` William Hubbs
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