On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:20:02 +0100, Grant Edwards wrote about [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?:
>On 2010-11-16, David W Noon <dwn...@ntlworld.com> wrote: [snip] >> No, the USE flags are purely a Portage thing. The USE flags >> determine which options are enabled/disabled when the ebuild runs the >> equivalent of a ./configure script. The defaults for the USE flags >> are part of the ebuild, completely separate from upstream. > >But if the developers are required to duplicate the upstream >"out-of-box" configuration, They aren't. They are required to produce a stable package for Gentoo. >then the defaults for the USE flags are >determined by upstream decisions, not by the developers. Again, the defaults are chosen for stability with Gentoo first; secondly, there are no fixed defaults -- or "out-of-box" configuration -- from upstream, as the USE flags are simply parameterizing the ./configure script via autotools. The only distributions that have fixed configurations are the binary ones. Any package that is built from source -- and under Gentoo that means almost everything -- is intrinsically configurable by the person building the binaries. To extend your "out-of-box" analogy: source code doesn't arrive in a box, but binaries (.rpm, .deb, etc.) do. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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