From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SeLs1-00087i-LN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 07:50:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 61D3DE0509; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 07:50:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D74CDE0466 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 07:48:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E38C08042E for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:48:14 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:48:10 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb Message-ID: <20120612084810.4a5e40ca@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20120611094936.63ba4cbb@khamul.example.com> <20120611102631.00cd5102@weird.wonkology.org> <4FD6A7EE.5060700@orlitzky.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0cvs53 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/./OVkMf7uYAjd5egWsBdKqj"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: a74ea69d-de0e-4d1b-aaa4-859aa77f1784 X-Archives-Hash: 4f9f246c09ef7dd6eb7bebcec50779e2 --Sig_/./OVkMf7uYAjd5egWsBdKqj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:29:48 -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > > Portage doesn't know what you want to do, so it does the safe thing > > and lets you decide. Either, =20 >=20 > I don't know either. I don't want udev, udisks, hwdb or even know > what they are. Somebody else wants all that stuff on my system > (gentoo profile or the gentoo handbook author) and I wish that person > would have addressed emerge's concerns WRT use flags. They have, as far as is possible. udisks needs udev with hwdb, and the ebuild tells you that when you try to merge it. An ebuild can override default flag settings for itself, but not for other packages (that would lead to anarchy) so it tells you what changes are needed and offers to make them for you. When hwdb becomes more global in scope, it may make sense to add it to the desktop profiles as default, but for now it is optional. If you choose a distro that offers you maximum choice over how your system is built, you really shouldn't complain about being given choices... --=20 Neil Bothwick How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? --Sig_/./OVkMf7uYAjd5egWsBdKqj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk/W9D4ACgkQum4al0N1GQOaqgCg2TjUltvOn7Y3/vtMJMx39OTc T8YAoNjaNHgpbaeWTdhyWx9XoocXu5Mw =/shR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/./OVkMf7uYAjd5egWsBdKqj--