[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/1] profiles: unset USE=modules by default.

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/1] profiles: unset USE=modules by default.

[Michael Orlitzky]

The "modules" USE flag was originally enabled by default in the base
profile so that any ebuild inheriting linux-mod.eclass would have its
kernel modules built by default. However, the name of that USE flag is
now controlled by the MODULES_OPTIONAL_USE variable, set in the ebuild
itself. The best place for the USE flag default is therefore in IUSE
(in the ebuild), because only the ebuild knows the correct flag name.

There are at least two packages, media-gfx/graphicsmagick and
net-im/mcabber, that assign a different meaning to the "modules" flag,
further suggesting that a global default is too blunt an approach.

This commit drops the flag from base/make.defaults, and also from
default/linux/make.defaults where a redundant entry was present.
Thereafter, the override in features/hardened/make.defaults is
unnecessary, so it has been dropped as well.

Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/635720
---
 profiles/base/make.defaults              | 5 -----
 profiles/default/linux/make.defaults     | 5 -----
 profiles/features/hardened/make.defaults | 1 -
 3 files changed, 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/profiles/base/make.defaults b/profiles/base/make.defaults
index 493af9ce75d..b44fd06ab4b 100644
--- a/profiles/base/make.defaults
+++ b/profiles/base/make.defaults
@@ -75,11 +75,6 @@ LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses te
 # Netbeans modules/clusters
 NETBEANS="apisupport cnd groovy gsf harness ide identity j2ee java mobility nb php profiler soa visualweb webcommon websvccommon xml"
 
-# 2009/09/21 Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
-# https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_dc705dc2c1a45e18a85aa62e8fb17009.xml
-# Build kernel modules from linux-mod by default:
-USE="${USE} modules"
-
 # Manuel Rüger <mrueg@gentoo.org> (09 Sep 2015)
 # Default Ruby build targets
 RUBY_TARGETS="ruby22"
diff --git a/profiles/default/linux/make.defaults b/profiles/default/linux/make.defaults
index 4d580b1ba06..0716de8a14c 100644
--- a/profiles/default/linux/make.defaults
+++ b/profiles/default/linux/make.defaults
@@ -53,8 +53,3 @@ VIDEO_CARDS="dummy fbdev v4l"
 # Note that adding LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 ${LDFLAGS}" breaks dev-util/boost-build
 # because of whitespace.
 LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
-
-# 2009/09/21 Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
-# https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_dc705dc2c1a45e18a85aa62e8fb17009.xml
-# Build kernel modules from linux-mod by default:
-USE="${USE} modules"
diff --git a/profiles/features/hardened/make.defaults b/profiles/features/hardened/make.defaults
index 1502b08728f..88e165c4611 100644
--- a/profiles/features/hardened/make.defaults
+++ b/profiles/features/hardened/make.defaults
@@ -24,4 +24,3 @@ USE="${USE} -berkdb -gdbm -tcpd"
 USE="${USE} -fortran"
 USE="${USE} -cli"
 USE="${USE} -dri"
-USE="${USE} -modules"
-- 
2.13.6