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On 16/11/2010, at 10:28pm, David W Noon wrote:
> ...
> Again, the defaults are chosen for stability with Gentoo first;
> secondly, there are no fixed defaults -- or "out-of-box" configuration
> -- from upstream, as the USE flags are simply parameterizing
> the ./configure script via autotools.

I'm not familiar with autotools specifically, but back in the days =
before I used Gentoo, when there were a couple of packages that weren't =
in my distro's package manager that I compiled "by hand" I used to just =
do something like `./configure && make`.

I could choose to select a different configuration by saying something =
like `./configure --with-ipv6`, but there were usually 30 or so options =
for which I made no selection.

Surely what `./configure` does if I don't make any choice about its =
compilation option is to be considered a "default"?

Stroller.