Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning

2005-12-26 Thread Chandler Carruth
I'm seeing, but as an alternative to USE-flag grouping/meta structure/etc, i thought i'd toss out the very flexible profile system we already have available (afaik). =] Profiles are I think underused, but there may well be _good_ reasons for that, so just my 2cents. -Chandler Carruth, yet another

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning

2005-12-26 Thread Chandler Carruth
Brian Harring wrote: On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 11:28:17PM -0500, Chandler Carruth wrote: It occurs to me that this could be (to an extent) accomplished by having a few more specialized subprofiles for x86: base, desktop, gnome, and kde. base - as the name implies, a _basic_ starting point

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-19 Thread Chandler Carruth
, causing transactions to become relevant and important, etc etc, and further hardware might be available here.) Hope this can be of some use to you in trying to make this evaluation. -Chandler Carruth -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-08 Thread Chandler Carruth
to be dependant on the difficult to manage transcode version. As a user currently, what steps could I take to help this package stay alive? I will take them as the alternative is to put an unofficial ebuild up on a webpage. -Chandler Carruth Roy Marples wrote: On Thursday 08 December 2005 20:23