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From: Simon Stelling <blubb@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] arch-cruft in use.mask makes me angry
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:55:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44AB7E8E.7020507@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200607042154.22942.vapier@gentoo.org>

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> can someone remind me why our arch USE flags are in an "opt-out" system rather 
> than "opt-in" ?  instead of adding things like:
> to every non-x86 profile, why dont we mask these things in base/use.mask and 
> then un-mask them in default-linux/x86 ?  doesnt that make more sense ?

I asked myself the same question about two weeks ago and made up a huge 
patch, I just didn't get around to verify it's really correct and 
complete. I can mail it to you if you want :)

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Kind Regards,

Simon Stelling
Gentoo/AMD64 Developer
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-05  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-05  1:54 [gentoo-dev] arch-cruft in use.mask makes me angry Mike Frysinger
2006-07-05  8:30 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-07-05  8:55 ` Simon Stelling [this message]
2006-07-05 11:31   ` Mike Frysinger
2006-07-05 13:28 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-16  3:37 ` Mike Frysinger
2006-07-19 18:20   ` Mike Frysinger

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