On Monday 08 June 2009 16:12:23 Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > I'd like to raise your attention on problem of in my opinion overusing IUSE > defaults in various packages. > Currently there seems to be no policy whatsoever at least advising when > it's appropriate to add +<useflag> and when not, so it's just up to > developer's taste.
the loose policy is to have the defaults follow what upstream intended. otherwise, it is left up to the maintainer on purpose -- they're supposed to know best. > While it usually doesn't do any particular harm (but I guess security and > prefix/alt team won't agree on this) - insanely enabling everything by > default is not the best idea in my opinion. > Of course we need an example. Let's have a look at latest stable media- > video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p20090322 ebuild: mplayer and friends is a bad example. upstream wants a lot of things enabled by default. > But thats's not the point - the point is, Gentoo probably needs some policy > to advise, when some newly added USE flags are appropriate to be enabled by > default. we already have one -mike
