On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 01:23:32PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: >... > Given the background of build-profiles, I'm very much in favor of > introducing the equivalent usage as Gentoo USE flags, which was its > main intention! :) It could make Debian a viable source-based > distribution to use or base on, could make many of the embedded specific > distribution solutions obsolete, >...
Who would then implement, maintain and support this in all packages? Implementing that global flags like USE="-systemd -alsa -pulseaudio -wayland" work across all 30k source packages would be a huge amount of work. And then supporting that any combination of disabling/enabling various flags builds and works for all packages at the quality level people expect from a Debian stable - that's completely out of scope of what Debian could achieve with its already stretched developer resources. > Thanks, > Guillem cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed