Duncan wrote: > hasufell posted on Fri, 11 Sep 2015 22:34:04 +0200 as excerpted: > >> USE flags in gentoo are the best and the worst thing at the same time. >> They are also mostly the main reason people don't like gentoo, because >> USE flags are (for todays situation) pretty much not an appropriate >> pattern to reflect real-world configuration. To be more precise... USE >> flags are first-class citizens and there is only one layer of them. > I agree with the one-layer problem, but just to say, without something > like USE flags, despite their single-layer-problem, I'd not be using > gentoo. Perhaps better can be done, but in the absence of better at the > moment, for better or worse, USE flags do get the job done, and I'd hate > to be without either them or an at least equally (if not more) powerful > replacement. >
+1 If there is not some way to disable/enable things, there is little point is using Gentoo. Actually, Gentoo loses something huge that makes Gentoo different. Besides, how would you tell a package how and what to compile without USE flags?? Dale :-) :-)