On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:22:14 +1200 Kent Fredric <kentfred...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 September 2012 15:53, Matthias Bethke <matth...@towiski.de> > wrote: > > I think Gentoo of all distributions should aim to provide software > > as "original" as possible. If there are any reasons that I have > > ignored so far why people would want the current behavior, how > > about I make this patch conditional on a new use flag? > > I'd suggest not a USE flag, at least, not at present, it would > needlessly require all ebuilds to have that useflag, which would be a > significant noise to users. > > I'd rather a documented( in the eclass ) ENV variable that could > toggle this behaviour that was /not/ a use-flag, so only people who > cared about that sort of behaviour could adjust it. > > Then the question is only really as to what a "Sane default" is. Seems > the sane default is to install packlists, but have it being > disable-able by ENV change for the people who have the tuits to know > "I'll never need those, and if I do, I can handle the need to rebuild > everything with them". I think the relevant env variable is called INSTALL_MASK then ;). -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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