From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A99981396D0 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2017 10:18:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9B16E0DA6; Sun, 13 Aug 2017 10:18:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.131]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1DCA4E0D90 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2017 10:18:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.6.88] ([212.159.46.162]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue004 [212.227.15.163]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LrGCe-1dbVvX2Fum-0137f0 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2017 12:18:39 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Revisions for USE flag changes To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <53c9d820-5852-730a-3728-793855c98a1a@gentoo.org> <6912b3d6-4d66-ef99-223c-5892549b571e@gentoo.org> <4bf31717-7dbe-78ec-30e1-78f12f63174e@gentoo.org> <9a4c73d7-34b7-d84e-b9f6-ff5abcc6ec31@gentoo.org> From: "M. 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Everitt" Message-ID: Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 11:18:09 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 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 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jQg1efQcsr5AwuDCfmVPCPLgNpII914mg" X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:L+SZRHZH3AiQWrCvi5/BAMOqWDaWTxLUMcD/JxHkd22HtD27l69 1r0NPMS9YeX3q/M9MjdbL1khqyrlaVKdNRpSIII+2hijjplJTX7zB28PbJKP8QCtimyr4lG XFbmBUdMYiA95F1Ejhbc5AkBZKNhPZ0cOS+g2XL4UCAxG8oCiL9NwLDMYTF2N0Jjglqv5Lx adwu0r4pmKQNtL+UT2Cyw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:VtquLQ4WDac=:4cuwLQKRQ8K7ov6ITjgKLz Auq4Xzusxta/7kyH4NFNyGDJC+iEmIzFj9hbpF4VsbLhrKsl2w2HRR5bXDg2yBBSDFofoGmvG pgtoLFyLhCMl24uwx4U3v8//gBJaEBslRiOCS2rxyshcX4qtmOoY9crdebYEz+u2mCzzrJnCS Lz4vml8RVBggVTK3i8Mgxrjt7Gqdmy+VtRn1FngWnsxsp5THP7e7ypFkFhXSFoPvsZKgYndUQ LlAgR+LBOenRo+FTQRSw9XF3J/m2TQVAt+CPgU/lNCIT4HQvQEbL2894U/5u9Y6DN4O2gUrV9 oag0Vmnd8VFTMHBBGqyTCYpxNREjuCWhPK9UD5cMKeRxRgF+R0XvBtLkP1D2ldMMFJzkYMo9b 2CI2Y80Ab4HKyZVdLLY/WlKJwv0eguZkQcmBfYVTk9TPJKLRZkBgPkufplE+H/yyx7+ZyDbkK EqGGzm/UTesFbvlxiN520rSHOlI44ALUgItnvVJQPQSV2oS0rrBH/4MH9aLEXZgy5kbL6nXeY usuo34C/UqfKT3ZEvLHanH5Ui/J+8+Ukq6CJ5a/iUEHbdzY7ktnVTHv8Qf0UNX4zcytYdMFo7 j3zW2OWkc9ytvMMLdz8X2ybLWCPJ1Ac5nIYia2NPYOHQEPbhVzLg1G7GbjVvUXJi3pJuMNgdw 29iuspXn3TuowR6h9fn0oqcQ9TDWgEIJTRFUZF62vHn3XCAV8r4nD1zJnCti/ttRwtWyAfA0S kq0gopxYSq4d4Q8EOa/ik7mtMRt/U590N1IHlg== X-Archives-Salt: 4168dbbf-f324-4cd1-9a55-011e992b51a7 X-Archives-Hash: fdf8472b739c9b52858cbb7bfbfe2644 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --jQg1efQcsr5AwuDCfmVPCPLgNpII914mg Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="fQxu6t3hhGIoaV3AIh1iQri1m5SW9E4Ld"; protected-headers="v1" From: "M. J. Everitt" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Revisions for USE flag changes References: <53c9d820-5852-730a-3728-793855c98a1a@gentoo.org> <6912b3d6-4d66-ef99-223c-5892549b571e@gentoo.org> <4bf31717-7dbe-78ec-30e1-78f12f63174e@gentoo.org> <9a4c73d7-34b7-d84e-b9f6-ff5abcc6ec31@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: --fQxu6t3hhGIoaV3AIh1iQri1m5SW9E4Ld Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 >> 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=3Dgstreamer" for every package in the > tree, because I have no idea what it does for most of them. Setting > USE=3Dwhatever 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 ... --fQxu6t3hhGIoaV3AIh1iQri1m5SW9E4Ld-- --jQg1efQcsr5AwuDCfmVPCPLgNpII914mg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJIBAEBCAAyFiEERR5DB4J2baXtk4AVu81GK0wzHTUFAlmQJ2oUHG0uai5ldmVy aXR0QGllZS5vcmcACgkQu81GK0wzHTVkGA//f0lKkOSCmB8C8LW5jegO8gaidx4f /nk1cS53FfF45ywKJ1Rkij77TQbW2a7B8PnVTQju4weoLUuMu2goGAZAbjA1cyaE Ya9vFCi3pWsF633ALLSAtnyqQMq5x4RitgO6szOYJGRKWVm9EKvwmNsKmHhELCFk E6SSOJoGkPonTpFt3nPe/dz8vGKXKPTkXU7Vu/OtKL8LpZDahlPsbz75WmbooYfU x7FyFtZVBksOuRhIal4VrecHsPejAr/rVoHqr5fmItHkWxy77Oio6yJKvyAcSTdl VEdpbGGH3SA4pY+lUgs94wVFmSzXjIav0jtO8XJ0IcczB7sZeKM03xuA8yA9a8pJ np1f1dzXkwPOd5zZCG/7wyydteZqBG42X62BQJYRMl7tfsBSQfA10MBwr7xGxGya VtgRVwuftsmSviFAA7FVBBxoq4TG8e1qY+wOuefi8RcRjggcF96jUS8F+jrIn/e5 36EXevTQkaQ3CF1YfC/p4Hwu6nOjzM1aHoA9q6R/YutTwfyZ4AxF4l86LtCtP3D3 h0g3NLBj1GCQcw2yYlFtjY5+Wvw+x1TzXrw4YWPkzuu2SFgULK6RLte9F1Vym8gO tSjKQIDDj0xv8zCQouD5QRtb1HBiZV2Vqnq/mwO+9O8cp+OYx+eZKkVqPd/AX8Jh E+KJdIrLxcmbH+M= =As5+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jQg1efQcsr5AwuDCfmVPCPLgNpII914mg--