>>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> writes:
Adrian> On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 01:23:32PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: >> ... Given the background of build-profiles, I'm very much in >> favor of introducing the equivalent usage as Gentoo USE flags, >> which was its main intention! :) It could make Debian a viable >> source-based distribution to use or base on, could make many of >> the embedded specific distribution solutions obsolete, ... Adrian> Who would then implement, maintain and support this in all Adrian> packages? No one. People would implement and test the feature where it was sufficiently useful to implement and test. I don't think all of the use flags combinations are tested in source distributions that have them today. Even so, users find those flags useful enough to spend a fair bit of work on them. A build profile seems like a great way to express the flag, and like many things in Debian, the work would fall on those who would benefit from it. So, I do support the use of build profiles for use flags. I also believe there's sufficient utility for downstreams and users to justify this. --Sam