From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E8xLo-0006s4-5N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:51:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7R9naqB006748; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:49:36 GMT Received: from rly-ip08.mx.aol.com (rly-ip08.mx.aol.com [64.12.138.12]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7R9lYfN003469; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:47:34 GMT Received: from smtp-dtc11.proxy.aol.com (smtp-dtc11.proxy.aol.com [205.188.118.34]) by rly-ip08.mx.aol.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7R9mpZr000772; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 05:48:51 -0400 Received: from [172.208.91.175] ([172.208.91.175]) by smtp-dtc11.proxy.aol.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7R9md1H020262; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 05:48:40 -0400 Message-ID: <431036EA.8050401@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 04:48:26 -0500 From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Harring <ferringb@gentoo.org> CC: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, gentoo-core@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles References: <20050825000442.GC1701@nightcrawler> In-Reply-To: <20050825000442.GC1701@nightcrawler> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.43 X-Apparently-From: ERR_USER_NULL X-Archives-Salt: 1aefb5c6-9827-4301-a16e-db428ac7f387 X-Archives-Hash: d6e79bcd59d8b375ae909eaa495a56d3 Brian Harring wrote: > I don't recall having kde/gtk crap turned on by default when I first > showed up. Maybe I'm missing something; regardless, the defaults > (which should be minimal from my standpoint) are anything but. I think you recall wrong, then. The default USE flags have been set so that the majority of systems will work properly without modifications, not so that they're the minimal set. The purpose of being able to negate USE flags in lower cascaded profiles is pointless if each level is the minimum. I think it makes more sense to have each level be a reasonable default that most people would prefer, then have weird exceptions subtract it. Donnie -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list