On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Mathy Vanvoorden <ma...@vanvoorden.be> wrote: > > 2017-03-06 15:53 GMT+01:00 Anthony G. Basile <bas...@freeharbor.net>: >> >> Bitcoin Knots includes a number of enhancements users may find useful. I >> think it would be a good idea to make it the default for Bitcoin >> ebuilds (net-p2p/bitcoin-qt, net-p2p/bitcoind, and dev-util/bitcoin-tx). > > > As a Bitcoin user I personally don't feel too happy with my experience > changing without me changing USE-flags. I'm not against changing the name of > the USE-flag, just against changing the default behavior and applying a > bunch of patches that Core might or might not support. > > If you compare this to the kernel would it not make more sense to create > something like bitcoin-knots (vanilla-sources vs gentoo-sources)? >
Wouldn't this mean having 2^n packages if there are multiple optional patches like this available? I could see the argument for bitcoin-vanilla and bitcoin-gentoo, assuming somebody wanted to maintain bitcoin-vanilla. bitcoin-gentoo would just be the current bitcoin ebuild in the tree. -- Rich
