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From: Thomas Sachau <tommy@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Amount of useflags enabled by default
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:14:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AE327F1.3050704@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AE204CF.2020309@gentoo.org>

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Sebastian Pipping schrieb:
> 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
> 
> 

This is a nice example for a default enabled USE flag, where i see no strong reason to enable it.

Now i dont know that package nor do i know how many users actually use that feature. If the majority
uses that feature, it seems ok to me to enable it by default (either by a specific xfce profile or
default enabled USE flag). If its on the other hand a minority, which just complains louder, i would
still request the useflag to stay offline by default.

Together with this, i am glad to see the move of KDE/GNOME specific USE flags from normal desktop
profile to KDE/GNOME subprofiles. In most cases, users will either use one of those or none of them.
With this change, it will give a better situation for the majority of our users. And for those, who
want to use both profiles, they can have a look at portage manpage, as betelgeuse suggested.

-- 
Thomas Sachau

Gentoo Linux Developer


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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-24 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-23 16:56 [gentoo-dev] Amount of useflags enabled by default Thomas Sachau
2009-10-23 19:32 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-10-24 16:14   ` Thomas Sachau [this message]
2009-10-23 19:54 ` Petteri Räty
2009-10-24 16:03   ` Pacho Ramos
2009-10-24 16:24   ` Thomas Sachau
2009-10-24 19:38     ` William Hubbs
2009-10-24  0:55 ` Alistair Bush
2009-10-24 16:35   ` Thomas Sachau
2009-11-06 23:40     ` Ed W
2009-11-07  7:46       ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan

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