Hello Somewhat continuing my battle to reasonably minimise USE flags enabled by default for users, I'd like to ask about one particular commit. Note that there's no commit message and it looks a bit fishy:
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo- x86/profiles/base/use.defaults?r1=1.1&r2=1.1.1.1 It enables considerable amount of USE flags in base profile. I'm most concerned about 'gstreamer' USE flag as it's not needed at all for KDE users (they get xine phonon backend as default and will just cause unnecessary dependency chain). If author of that commit is concerned about Gnome functionality, he could talk with Gnome devs first - besides gstreamer is probably pulled there as dependency so no point really in enabling it as USE flag in base profile. Please remove it. (also 'gtk' is there, why not 'kde' as well? remember we're talking about *base* profile, not *desktop* profile) And my main point is - since we have EAPI=1 (use defaults) and EAPI=2 (use deps, yes, it's time to learn those), sane defaults should be set per package level if possible and respected via use deps. Also this is very related to bug [1] and discussion about it [2]. It would be nice to see some progress on that matter (progress = perl and python dropped from profile, and only enabled for ebuilds when maintainer see it fit). 1. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250179 2. http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo- dev/msg_afe72c138992b6a590120de199ffcc44.xml -- regards MM
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