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From: Steve Long <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev]  Re: Flags to punt (including: kerberos USE flag)
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:00:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gesjh3$sr6$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200811032027.22254.levertond@googlemail.com

David Leverton wrote:

> On Monday 03 November 2008 04:29:34 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
>> Why not use EAPI=1 for those ebuilds and turn the flag on by default?
> 
> Well, as I said, it seems more sensible to me to set the default once,
> instead
> of once for each ebuild.  I don't particularly care, though, just making
> sure people know why it was there in the first place, and if they still
> want to change it, so be it.

I concur, it is more sensible. Dunno how you get round the maintenance
issue, apart from scripts around the time someone leaves or sth. Maybe "if
they're all/substantively from an eclass, it definitely must not be in a
profile" would be a good policy.





  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-05 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-31 14:52 [gentoo-dev] kerberos USE flag Doug Goldstein
2008-10-31 18:09 ` Marius Mauch
2008-10-31 18:17   ` Doug Goldstein
2008-10-31 18:20     ` Dawid Węgliński
2008-10-31 18:41       ` Doug Goldstein
2008-10-31 19:01         ` Dawid Węgliński
2008-10-31 18:18   ` Jeremy Olexa
2008-10-31 20:01 ` Michael Hammer
2008-10-31 21:50   ` Joe Peterson
2008-11-01  0:18     ` Mart Raudsepp
2008-11-01  0:22       ` Andrew Gaffney
2008-11-01  0:46         ` Mart Raudsepp
2008-11-01  2:44       ` [gentoo-dev] Flags to punt (including: kerberos USE flag) Josh Saddler
2008-11-01  2:57         ` Olivier Crête
2008-11-01  8:09         ` David Leverton
2008-11-03  4:29           ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2008-11-03 20:27             ` David Leverton
2008-11-05 17:00               ` Steve Long [this message]
2008-11-13 17:43         ` Tobias Scherbaum
2008-11-04 14:56 ` [gentoo-dev] kerberos USE flag Doug Goldstein

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