On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 9:11 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 05:26:19PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 12:54:26 -0500 >> > Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > >> >> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 6:13 AM, konsolebox <konsole...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Please consider promoting the use of tinfo flag in packages that >> >> > depend on sys-libs/ncurses so that they would synchronize properly >> >> > with sys-libs/ncurses[tinfo]. >> >> >> >> I would rather see the tinfo USE flag removed from ncurses. >> > >> > vapier doesn't consider this QA violation a QA violation. >> > >> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/487844 >> >> Perhaps QA could take some action then? >> >> Updating ~1500 ebuilds with a [tinfo=] use-dep seems like a poor solution. > > <qa hat on> > Our policies are in the dev manual, so please cite the violation there. > If you can't, this is not a qa violation, so please don't call it one. > </qa hat> > > I don't see a problem with the use flag and suggest updating the other > ebuilds.
The USE flag introduces needless complexity for zero benefit. Please explain to me why this is a good idea.
