From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ed8HJ-0007Kd-8D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:35:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAIFZ9Hu027412; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:35:09 GMT Received: from smtp.top-hosting.cz (gw.top-hosting.cz [81.0.254.91]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAIFXL5D032306 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:33:22 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.top-hosting.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1E059FCF84 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:33:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.top-hosting.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.top-hosting.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06195-07-2 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:33:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from NOTORCOMP (21.217.broadband4.iol.cz [85.71.217.21]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.top-hosting.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9165B9FCF82 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:33:14 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:33:08 +0100 From: Jakub Moc X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <951460691.20051118163308@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] use.defaults and pointless commits Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="----------E410811A21FED33F" X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new 2.3.3 (20050822) at top-hosting.cz X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.379 tagged_above=-999 required=6 tests=[SPF_NEUTRAL=1.379] X-Spam-Score: 1.379 X-Spam-Level: * X-Archives-Salt: 821ddf94-084c-4c06-ab72-2482abccadba X-Archives-Hash: 46ad38d640e62f7f2b62d9e615d2e540 ------------E410811A21FED33F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello everyone, would someone more competent explain to me, why - this feature even exists - why has a mass of things been commited in there recently ? It's - confusing users - rendering /etc/portage/package.keywords useless (install a dep for one particular ebuild and enjoy the USE flag enabled globally) - causing unwanted results (I did not really install app-text/recode for the purpose of enabling USE=3Drecode globally and make it clash with half of ph= p USE flags e.g.) - causing pointless breakage/bailing out in current ebuilds for users that = have not touched USE flags on their system at all Related links: http://viewcvstest.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/use.defau= lts?r1=3D1.22&r2=3D1.23 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D112074 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D86687#c7 Suggested solution: remove use.defaults feature from portage; meanwhile, st= op adding stuff in there. It gains nothing, just confuses people and breaks things. Thanks. --=20 Best regards, Jakub Moc mailto:jakub@gentoo.org GPG signature: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0xCEB= A3D9E Primary key fingerprint: D2D7 933C 9BA1 C95B 2C95 B30F 8717 D5FD CEBA 3D9E ... still no signature ;) ------------E410811A21FED33F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFDffQ0hxfV/c66PZ4RAk0qAKCQwWHjkOOyfSx0xvCTX7fX6QtjdACdGA3l 9H1iSaqTc8Xzngu+vNfLzvc= =GGOB -----END PGP MESSAGE----- ------------E410811A21FED33F-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list