From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kwr4K-0002Su-OL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:29:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E25A1E018D; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 04:29:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com (ti-out-0910.google.com [209.85.142.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79E93E018D for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 04:29:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id u5so1186794tia.10 for ; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:29:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=FqQ/RixcKoEnpfGkcEem1hICTkhOuu8t4tbbThguAj4=; b=N+gVmvpnXODUUpK2Vu2HN/VJ1oBjYlU08a4Q5b/dUOxegSq4/5ZxsMHQqcZEQy3UJ7 iOO7ZllrOw2qw49ZTndCDWrmYMID31rAZUUao5xYJw1pSvuGrZ25rAvoxyLCLaRLjmD1 kU+HYuv4JB90bu2RnuoXvi9wRtQO92/Qg2T00= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=UpuyzhOqTRtriHYDfl65C5QkuxOl/FnGvsiD4sD28siqlD6f0VgsHjz6AUhcGlIF0f lQYKy2Tm6NN6W1kYuR54Zkij8O7R3inmJ9pxRGnRy5oil0O1xR2x8C12hFWftwRC1BsF e6PDspAIrfOn05wsSH4i87SHTVEvWpOLKPEdI= Received: by 10.110.92.8 with SMTP id p8mr10846181tib.39.1225686574194; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:29:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.110.17.2 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Nov 2008 20:29:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8b4c83ad0811022029y73e52bd9i3dec70ae73e90d8f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 09:59:34 +0530 From: "Nirbheek Chauhan" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Flags to punt (including: kerberos USE flag) In-Reply-To: <200811010809.56962.levertond@googlemail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <490B1BCB.1020008@gentoo.org> <1225498689.9587.1.camel@localhost> <490BC2A2.3040801@gentoo.org> <200811010809.56962.levertond@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: be8858d4-2bae-4a99-b8a1-bbcadd058af7 X-Archives-Hash: d893b70ea1747c571651ce5e0d8be33d On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 1:39 PM, David Leverton wrote: > On Saturday 01 November 2008 02:44:50 Josh Saddler wrote: >> emboss - Seriously. Who needs the European Biology Open Software Suite >> on a *desktop* oriented system? > > That flag is only used by a few sci-biology packages, so if you don't have any > of those installed, it doesn't matter whether the flag is on or off. IIRC > the argument for having it on was that the majority of people who /do/ use > those packages will want it. > > I suppose one could say that it should be set in IUSE or profile package.use > instead, but IMHO, if there are enough packages using it to justify making it > a global flag in the first place, and all of them need the same default, it > makes sense to set the default globally (*cough*ocamlopt*cough*). Why not use EAPI=1 for those ebuilds and turn the flag on by default? Same for the panel stuff for which +eds is good for integration? I think EAPI=1 +use should be used to de-pollute the desktop etc profiles :) IIRC, there are enough stable versions of portage with EAPI=1 support. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan