Re: AW: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

2006-08-07 Thread Luca Barbato
Noack, Sebastian wrote: > > Is a need to have dozens of lines in your /etc/portage/package.use a > simple approach? Maybe it is, if for you, simplicity means only "less > number of lines of code in the core of the application". But wasn't you > the one who told me that quantity isn't the same like

AW: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

2006-08-07 Thread Noack, Sebastian
> > > Well, I don't consider reducing complexity "frivolous" ;-o > > > > Which reduction for which complexity? Do you want to bring everyone's > > systems to a grinding halt, just because you can't understand the > > "complexity" of useflags. > > I just want to keep things simple. We're talking ab

AW: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

2006-08-03 Thread Noack, Sebastian
> > Today the solution would be to enable the kde, qt, qt3, qt4, gtk, etc. > > -useflag. But this solution is crappy, because of some ebuilds for > > These flags are crap at all. It already is crap that certain packages > contain backend and frontends for several GUIs (more precisely: based > on s