From: "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@iee.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Revisions for USE flag changes
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 11:18:09 +0100 [thread overview]
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On 13/08/17 11:11, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> 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.
>
Which is why we have GLOBAL use flags and LOCAL use flags, right?!
I'm not sure I'm actually reading this discussion right now?! and I'm
*not* a dev ...
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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
2017-08-13 10:18 ` M. J. Everitt [this message]
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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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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