21.10.2005, 13:51:17, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 04:37:16 -0700 Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | Also consider the case of media-libs/libsdl.  It uses novideo,
> | noaudio, and nojoystick, for the simple reason that for the vast
> | majority of folks who'd have reason to merge the package, turning OFF
> | that functionality makes entirely NO sense and having it OFF by
> | default, if the USE flags weren't enabled for some reason, would be
> | entirely unintuitive.

> Not a problem. Just turn on the video, audio and joystick USE flags in
> the base profile. Or don't make them USE flags at all...

These three no* flags should have been killed ages ago. They've never been
useful for anything else than causing tons of PEBKAC bugs. :-( This stuff is
not optional, period.


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