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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] berkdb and gdbm in global USE defaults
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 22:33:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ0EP43TEYAij7ChB35y0+bs9wyuA-aR8LK=vAWHaL0+Ew-jow@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I recently ran into a REQUIRED_USE constraint that required I select
between berkdb and gdbm for an email client.

Looking through our profiles, I see we have both berkdb and gdbm
enabled "globally".

default/linux/make.defaults:USE="berkdb crypt ipv6 ncurses nls pam
readline ssl tcpd zlib"
releases/make.defaults:USE="acl gdbm nptl unicode"

Is there any reason to have these USE flags enabled globally?

These USE seem pretty package-specific in scope. On my system, they
are used by around a dozen of 1000+ installed packages. I think it
might make sense to migrate them to appropriate IUSE defaults, or
leave them disabled where they do not provide critical functionality.


             reply	other threads:[~2017-01-27  3:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-27  3:33 Mike Gilbert [this message]
2017-01-27  7:54 ` [gentoo-dev] berkdb and gdbm in global USE defaults 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
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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