On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 09:06:33PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 02/02/2017 09:00 PM, Sam Jorna wrote: > > > > Consider: a new user, coming from Ubuntu or Fedora or Windows, starts > > building their system. They start installing packages they want, only to > > find that half of the package isn't there because no USE flags were > > enabled. They have to enable these flags for almost every package they > > want because there's no defaults, you must manually specify anything > > that's not a direct dependency or forced by profile. > > Desktop profile!!!!!!!!!! We have a desktop profile!!! Why is the base > profile a better location for new-user-with-a-desktop defaults than the > **desktop** profile? > > I'm going crazy. I give up.
That would also mean two commits when adding or removing a package with any defaults - one for profiles/, one for the package itself - as well as when flags change for a given package. Also, how would this work with local USE flags as opposed to global flags? Would they be acceptable to have IUSE defaults? -- Sam Jorna (wraeth) GnuPG Key: D6180C26
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