From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N1PsK-0008Uh-7l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:32:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A1454E08D2; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:32:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78E75E08D2 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:32:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (unknown [78.52.97.59]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C38666735E for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:32:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4AE204CF.2020309@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:32:31 +0200 From: Sebastian Pipping User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091018) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Amount of useflags enabled by default References: <4AE1E033.3030707@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4AE1E033.3030707@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0c952e8a-9b82-4742-812c-6ba48f98897d X-Archives-Hash: 6946d4cd873a523222b7274875823f73 Thomas Sachau wrote: > In addition, i see a trend to enabled more more more USE flags (either over profiles or via IUSE > +flag). I'm not sure for how much of the IUSE="+foo" cases this applies but I can explain one of them: In xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.6.1-r1 there is +fortune in IUSE because otherwise previous users of 4.6.1 would be missing the feature enabled by it. If you worry that +foo is becoming a trend _without_ strong reason you could try enforcing documentation for in metadata.xml (through new tags) maybe. Sebastian