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 1E9mau-0000kP-Ge for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:34:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7TGWB3j008139; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:32:11 GMT Received: from rs26s12.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (rs26s12.datacenter.cha.cantv.net [200.44.33.31]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7TGUU22027022 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:30:30 GMT Received: from dC9F33F54.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net (dC9F33F54.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net [201.243.63.84]) by rs26s12.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (8.13.4/8.13.0/3.0) with ESMTP id j7TGWM5X007468 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:32:22 -0400 X-Matched-Lists: [] Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by dC9F33F54.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1E9mYZ-0007Jf-5P for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:32:23 -0400 Message-ID: <43133896.8090807@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:32:22 -0400 From: "Luis F. Araujo" Organization: Gentoo inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050820) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] crap use flags in the profiles References: <20050825000442.GC1701@nightcrawler> <200508242050.58465.vapier@gentoo.org> <20050825012700.GE1701@nightcrawler> <200508250028.50136.vapier@gentoo.org> <1125331139.1964.98.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> In-Reply-To: <1125331139.1964.98.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.86.2, clamav-milter version 0.86 on rs26s12.datacenter.cha.cantv.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: 05150f27-7655-4594-9f45-1042a296e7e9 X-Archives-Hash: 41954f2128d00262160deb2b20182908 Chris Gianelloni wrote: >On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 00:28 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > >>- base doesnt define any USE >>- default-linux defines a few local xorg USE (because no one has given us the >>ability to control default USE via IUSE yet :P) >> >>{x86,amd64}/make.defaults has the 'bloated' USE because every single sub x86 >>and amd64 profile had the same USE in them ... if you want to re-push them >>into subprofiles like 200[45].[01], that's fine by me ... will have to check >>with wolf/releng so they dont revert it :P >> >> > > >We've actually been talking about making the profiles more like this, >but really need to weigh the additional work required to validate them >before we go deciding that we're going to start adding profiles for >specific uses. I tend to believe that if we start adding them, we'll >soon be bombarded with "I want a $x profile because I don't like this >one USE flag" kind of bugs. It's much easier to say "this is our >defaults, change them as you like" than it is to provide multiple sets >of "defaults" all of which are completely arbitrary. > > > That's for sure that will happen. I also agree with keeping a default and letting the users build their own profiles out of it. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list