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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