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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Revisions for USE flag changes
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 06:11:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bba18f14-7408-1bca-3e4b-b2ffd74ec7d7@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan$e1789$17d712eb$ce61a4b2$e27a6476@cox.net>

On 08/12/2017 10:52 PM, Duncan wrote:
> 
> How so?  Are you arguing that deciding to system-wide switch to/from 
> pulseaudio, systemd, or gstreamer is nonsense?
> 

The meaning of any one USE flag varies widely across packages. I could
never say "I want to enable USE=gstreamer" for every package in the
tree, because I have no idea what it does for most of them. Setting
USE=whatever globally essentially means "make random changes to my
system" -- hence my wording.

The meaning of a USE flag is per-package, so per-package is the only
meaningful way to set them.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-13 10:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-11 23:50 [gentoo-dev] Revisions for USE flag changes Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-12  0:45 ` Brian Evans
2017-08-12  0:59   ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-12  1:04     ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-12  1:11     ` Brian Evans
2017-08-12  8:39       ` Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
2017-08-12  9:58         ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-13  2:52           ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2017-08-13 10:11             ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2017-08-13 10:18               ` M. J. Everitt
2017-08-14  1:34                 ` Duncan
2017-08-16 20:12               ` Daniel Campbell
2017-08-18 14:50             ` Duncan
2017-08-13  5:01           ` [gentoo-dev] " Hans de Graaff
2017-08-13 10:38             ` Michael Orlitzky
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     [not found]                   ` <CAJ0EP43YbX-vA5cWcFm_Etin4H31Nq2s_xYsrTwuOK6LVyW+9A@mail.gmail.com>
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2017-08-13 17:28                       ` Mike Gilbert
2017-08-12  4:22 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Palimaka
2017-08-12 10:16   ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-12 10:58     ` Michael Palimaka
2017-08-12 10:32   ` Rich Freeman
2017-08-12  5:02 ` [gentoo-dev] " Hans de Graaff
2017-08-12  7:03 ` Michał Górny
2017-08-12  9:57   ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-12 10:04     ` Toralf Förster
2017-08-12 10:29     ` Rich Freeman
2017-08-12 11:05       ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Palimaka
2017-08-12 11:18         ` Rich Freeman
2017-08-14 12:01         ` Jason Zaman
2017-08-16  3:22           ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-16 15:56             ` Duncan
2017-08-16 16:09               ` Rich Freeman
2017-08-17  4:27             ` Jason Zaman
2017-08-12 14:14       ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-13  2:32         ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2017-08-13 10:08           ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-13 16:06 ` [gentoo-dev] " William Hubbs
2017-08-13 16:12   ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-14 16:29     ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2017-08-14 16:21 ` William L. Thomson Jr.

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