On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 08:22:01PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:09:32 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | On Sunday 15 October 2006 14:16, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | > On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 02:09:58 -0400 Mike Frysinger > | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | what are you talking about ? the point of having per-package > | > | defaults is so that you can enable a flag by default in one > | > | package only > | > > | > package != ebuild. > | > > | > | to take the oss example, we would want to remove that from our > | > | profiles and only enable it by default on say libsdl > | > > | > That's removing it from one place and adding it to five others. > | > | ... and you can have different default USE for some versions so if a > | feature changes between them, you can easily control it > > Which is very much not the normal case, so it's not worth requiring > five times as much duplication just for the occasional time when it is > necessary.
Ebuilds already have a boatload of duplication; bit of a red herring however complaining about a single char in IUSE to indicate a flag defaults to on (seriously, you're bitching about 5 chars of wasted space for a single flag forced on, switch to a better arguement). ~harring
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