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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FnR6x-0006Qq-5T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:16:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k562EAQ8003484; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 02:14:10 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k562B8cB004886 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 02:11:09 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CA5364939 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 02:11:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14999-06 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 02:10:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F93464947 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 02:10:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FnR1x-0000KK-28 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 04:10:53 +0200 Received: from ppp-82-135-5-239.mnet-online.de ([82.135.5.239]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 04:10:53 +0200 Received: from genstef by ppp-82-135-5-239.mnet-online.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 04:10:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Stefan Schweizer Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Default useflag cleanups: -apm -foomaticdb -fortran -imlib -motif -oss -xmms Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 04:10:37 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1149557038.25202.5.camel@vertigo.twi-31o2.org> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-82-135-5-239.mnet-online.de User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: news X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.589 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.010, BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -2.589 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: cfad6de2-a566-4296-9c0a-c539f6aa94ec X-Archives-Hash: fbf27cbe8efe2a219e403b862d175b50 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 18:03 +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: >> -foomaticdb - foomaticdb is only used for development foomatic xml files. >> SInce most of our users do not develop printer drivers I suggest >> making "ppds" a default use flag instead. > > Should we have ppds in the 2006.1 profile, or 2006.1/desktop? printers are not only used on desktops, add it in "profile" please. > >> -oss - oss is a legacy audio interface that has been superseeded by alsa >> in most current installs, a default use flag is no longer needed > > There are *many* applications in the tree that do not use ALSA, but work > only via the OSS emulation. Removing this is a bad idea and it would > definitely be blocked by the games team. Probably half of the packages > that I maintain require OSS capabilities. but they do not require an oss use flag. The point of removing this flag is to remove "optional" oss support. Have a look at http://gentoo-portage.com/Search?search=&use=oss for the useage of this flag. And for your games argument. The games ebuilds from the above list I have looked at, provide both the "alsa" and the "oss" use flag, as do most really. It is not about removing OSS emulation, it is about removing duplicated backends. > > So does anyone have any objections to the others being removed? > (apm imlib mikmod motif xmms) foomaticdb is missing here, I hope you will not forget it -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list