From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KxllI-0006JJ-N6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:01:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7EDAE0304; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 17:01:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E555E0304 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 17:01:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCBE4648F7 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 17:01:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.846 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.846 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.686, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] 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 5c5XqVivaZ+r for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 17:01:36 +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 4002964382 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 17:01:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Kxll5-00038G-2W for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:01:31 +0000 Received: from 82.152.215.65 ([82.152.215.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:01:31 +0000 Received: from slong by 82.152.215.65 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:01:31 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Steve Long Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Flags to punt (including: kerberos USE flag) Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:00:07 +0000 Message-ID: References: <490B1BCB.1020008@gentoo.org> <200811010809.56962.levertond@googlemail.com> <8b4c83ad0811022029y73e52bd9i3dec70ae73e90d8f@mail.gmail.com> <200811032027.22254.levertond@googlemail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.152.215.65 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 2ae8d98a-a2db-4925-b3ca-790fcc7a6463 X-Archives-Hash: 7ee9883d057c97a9538eece06b0ef843 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.