On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Uh, no. USE flags do not control whether packages get installed. They > control whether something which has **optional** support will use it. Yes, I just think it would be more usefull for beginners to have a set of defaults they could use as a suggestion, to be more or less adapted to their real usage. Including something alien to most may convey a message like " don't touch this or else start from zero". > So, for things with optional emboss support, by default the emboss > support will be enabled. Which makes sense, because if you're > installing science apps, you'll probably want it, and if you're not I probably won't, unless I'm a biologist, and a molecular one. OTH, I'll probably want tetex, which is not in the default list. > > Regards,
Jorge Almeida -- [email protected] mailing list
