From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] berkdb and gdbm in global USE defaults
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 17:51:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7043f42e-8c14-777d-83bf-b1faec862315@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170127164632.GA15438@whubbs1.gaikai.biz>
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On 01/27/2017 05:46 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
>> It breaks the highly sought after "Gentoo is about choice" mantra.
>> In this case, choice to not care and have the best chosen for me.
> Actually it doesn't. In this case the user should make a choice rather
> than the maintainer silently making a choice behind their back.
There is an argument to be made for sane defaults in profiles as well as
default IUSE specification in this though to provide a better user
experience, but the underlying mechanism should be explicit.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-27 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-27 3:33 [gentoo-dev] berkdb and gdbm in global USE defaults Mike Gilbert
2017-01-27 7:54 ` Mart Raudsepp
2017-01-27 8:32 ` Fabian Groffen
2017-01-27 10:58 ` Kent Fredric
2017-01-27 11:16 ` Mart Raudsepp
2017-01-27 11:41 ` Mart Raudsepp
2017-01-27 12:01 ` Dirkjan Ochtman
2017-01-27 12:08 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2017-01-27 13:14 ` Fabian Groffen
2017-01-27 16:27 ` Mart Raudsepp
2017-01-27 16:46 ` William Hubbs
2017-01-27 16:51 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand [this message]
2017-01-27 16:22 ` Mike Gilbert
2017-01-27 16:56 ` Mart Raudsepp
2017-01-27 18:40 ` Matt Turner
2017-01-28 7:12 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2017-01-27 16:56 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Orlitzky
2018-04-07 18:44 ` William Hubbs
2018-04-07 18:55 ` Michael Orlitzky
2018-04-07 19:16 ` William Hubbs
2018-04-07 19:57 ` Lars Wendler
2018-04-07 20:41 ` Matt Turner
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