On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 17:30:41 +0000 John Mylchreest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > I'll also be petitioning for USE flags to control whether or not | > each individual icon graphic gets installed with sylpheed-claws. I | > don't use some of those icons, so including them is bloat. | | I think there are times when you should re-read what your sending | before you actually send it. There is constructive criticism and then | there is childish argument.
Eh, I gave the sensible arguments earlier on. Since this thread has degenerated into a rhetoric competition, I thought I'd liven things up a bit. I mean, Stuart's lengthy post extolling the virtues of USE flags is all very well, but there's a time and a place, and such a good argument should be saved for when Foser's trying to abolish a sensible USE flag. | As I also suggested in a previous post, if you can think of a more | intuitive way for the user to be able to do this, without the use of a | USE flag which is persistent and doesn't involved an external file, | please. Let me know. If its viable, I will migrate the functionality | to that. Heck, go with a local USE flag if you really think that one measly little symlink is too much for our users to cope with. But don't clutter up the globals list with something which is only applicable to a small group of packages in the same category and which has a tiny effect. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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