From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F0F9138454 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 02:29:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 24B03E087E; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 02:29:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 231FDE0869 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 02:29:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZaaZG-0003i2-9e for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 04:29:30 +0200 Received: from ip98-167-165-199.ph.ph.cox.net ([98.167.165.199]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 04:29:30 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip98-167-165-199.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 04:29:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE="gui" Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 02:29:25 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <55EFDDAD.9030502@gentoo.org> <55EFDEC7.1070403@gentoo.org> <55F00BFD.7050804@gentoo.org> <55F12159.3020506@gentoo.org> <55F1439E.1070002@gentoo.org> <55F1C8AB.40005@gentoo.org> <55F1CA38.3050302@gentoo.org> <55F298D0.7020702@gentoo.org> <55F3178F.8070104@gentoo.org> <55F33ABC.4070509@gentoo.org> 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip98-167-165-199.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.140 (Chocolate Salty Balls; GIT af87825) X-Archives-Salt: d701137d-700b-463c-9746-dfe4a97d3fba X-Archives-Hash: c155137c85f33626398c87fdade5028b hasufell posted on Fri, 11 Sep 2015 22:34:04 +0200 as excerpted: > USE flags in gentoo are the best and the worst thing at the same time. > They are also mostly the main reason people don't like gentoo, because > USE flags are (for todays situation) pretty much not an appropriate > pattern to reflect real-world configuration. To be more precise... USE > flags are first-class citizens and there is only one layer of them. I agree with the one-layer problem, but just to say, without something like USE flags, despite their single-layer-problem, I'd not be using gentoo. Perhaps better can be done, but in the absence of better at the moment, for better or worse, USE flags do get the job done, and I'd hate to be without either them or an at least equally (if not more) powerful replacement. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman