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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fy3E6-0007Mo-8R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:59:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k658wF3i015734; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 08:58:16 GMT Received: from buggy.blubb.ch (cable-static-87-245-102-53.shinternet.ch [87.245.102.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k658thXc008374 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 08:55:43 GMT Received: from chief ([192.168.10.2]) by buggy.blubb.ch with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Fy33K-0007vm-8i for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:48:10 +0200 Message-ID: <44AB7E8E.7020507@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:55:42 +0200 From: Simon Stelling User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8 (X11/20060516) 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] arch-cruft in use.mask makes me angry References: <200607042154.22942.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200607042154.22942.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: efd81d6a-ce5e-4aa1-96d0-48f0eba52e0e X-Archives-Hash: cb0ee4ad386e1ce097fee205e7e0430b 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 :) -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list