Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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Dnia 2013-06-01, o godz. 12:41:06
William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> napisał(a):

> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 01:23:59PM +0200, Ralph Sennhauser wrote:
> > William, each time this comes up you overred the _reasonably_.
> > Controlling dependencies is always reasonable but beyond that it's case
> > by case. Just because you can is never a valid reason. Often there are
> > options you clearly only want to toggle if you are a developer or
> > options meant for porting to alternative operating systems which lack
> > some bells and whistles and the like. Another example is configuring a
> > library for bundling with an app. The world is bigger than linux
> > distros.
> 
> Ralph, I never said anything about disagreeing with these cases. I'm
> talking about purely optional features of packages which do not
> have any bearing on runtime dependencies or cause breakage.
> 
> If a configure script offers switches for purely optional features, we
> should, imo, 1) give the users use flags to control these features or
> 2)hard code the settings we want in our ebuilds.
> 
> What do you think?

That depends on a package and on the case.

If a switch only changes the default in a config file, a flag is
useless.

If a switch toggles a feature that does not introduce additional
dependencies, is small and can be toggled from within the app, a flag
is useless.

If a switch toggles a install of a tiny file which most people either
want or don't care about, a flag is useless.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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