On Tue, 28 May 2013 17:15:40 -0500 William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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]. William, each time this comes up you overred the _reasonably_. Controlling dependencies is always reasonable but beyond that it's case by case. Just because you can is never a valid reason. Often there are options you clearly only want to toggle if you are a developer or options meant for porting to alternative operating systems which lack some bells and whistles and the like. Another example is configuring a library for bundling with an app. The world is bigger than linux distros. > 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. Useless options within the given context are an usability issue and those who want to toggle stuff for it's own sake still have EXTRA_ECONF. Ralph > > William > > [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/index.html
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