On Aug 3, 2005, at 5:16 AM, Tsunam wrote:
Would like to first thank Carsten Lohrke, Carlo, for helping me
find the exact
location of the mysterious appearance of eds to a on default status.
*story time* After a recent emerge sync, I came face to face with
quite a
pecular list of packages that wanted to be installed. As I have -
gnome in my
make.conf it just was confusing. Until I did a emerge -avuDt world.
I noticed
that gaim had turned up with a eds use flag. Evolution Data server
seems like
something that should not be in the base/use.defaults, at least as
far as I can
tell. Anything that can of course make use of eds, will require the
new packages
as dependencies. For those not using gnome, this can be a bit of a
pain to hunt
down and see what is going on.
Well, use.defaults has nothing to do with it. It was the addition to
default-linux/$arch/make.defaults that most likely caused this.
There is a reason for it, too. Our default configuration must work
properly. Well, Gnome was not working properly due to the missing
eds and gstreamer USE flags. I added these flags at the request of
the Gnome team, as they had thought that adding them to use.defaults
accomplished the job, when it did not.
Course we all know that a simple -eds will fix the problem, I guess
I'm just
looking for a why it was enabled by default?
Because gnome is enabled by default, and eds/gstreamer are really
needed for a properly working default Gnome configuration.
For reference as to the start of this inquiry:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101129
I probably should have sent a note to -dev about this change when I
did it, but I was in a rush of bug-fixes for 2005.1, so I apologize.
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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux
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