Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

["Jan Kundrát" <jkt@gentoo.org>]

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Enrico Weigelt wrote:
>> Opening an ebuild and reading it must be hard.
> 
> Not what I asked. I'm talking about what an user can expect to get.
> You don't expect every user to look trough each ebuilt, seriously ?
> 
> And, in case of Xorg, the individual needs may very deeply.
> Some applications need just Xlib, some Xaw, others maybe some
> extensions, etc.
> 
> If you would put evrything in one monolithic package you would,
> in the end, need one useflag per library. Or you loose the ability
> to build the system for your special needs. Most times you'll get
> much, much stuff you won't ever need. Is this compatible with
> the gentoo philosphy ?

Please wake up. We have modular X.org now so just move along and b*tch
about anything else. If you really feel like this is the best thing you
can do for Gentoo development, please provide a procmail rule that kills
all your -dev mails along with relevant replies.

Cheers,
-jkt

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