On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:07:37PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > For the others, how large is the benefit of having them switchable? > At least some of them look like something that wouldn't hurt people if > it was always-built.
The dev manual states that use flags are to control optional dependencies and _settings_ which a user may reasonably want to select [1]. Since the developer gives us the ability to control this with configure switches, I feel pretty strongly that we should give the user that control. William [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/index.html
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