[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles

[Kito <kito@gentoo.org>]

On Aug 24, 2005, at 7:04 PM, Brian Harring wrote:

> Hola all.
>

[...]

>
> So, fex, the following flags are rather desktop specific-
> alsa
> arts
> avi
> bitmap-fonts
> cups
> eds
> emboss (why the hell is "European Molecular Biology Open Software  
> Suite"
>   a profile default?  Seems extremely specialized)
> encode
> fortran
> foomaticdb
> gnome
> gstreamer
> gtk
> gtk2
> imlib
> kde
> mad
> mikmod
> motif
> mp3
> mpeg
> ogg
> oggvorbis
> oss
> png
> qt
> quicktime
> sdl
> spell
> truetype
> truetype-fonts
> type1-fonts
> vorbis
> xml2
> xmms
>

When I did my first Gentoo install in the 1.4ish era, I was pretty  
shocked to see roughly this same insane list. I quickly learned about  
the -* trick, as the main thing that brought me to this distro was  
the minimalist factor. As you pointed out, -* is pretty ugly as it  
leaves the user with the task of recreating a sane default use list.

[...]

>
> So yeah, subprofiles, reasons why not?

Aside from the work involved, I see no reason to not use the cascades  
for what they seem to be made for.


--Kito

>
> My slightly flamey 2 cents
> ~harring

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