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On Monday 08 December 2003 08:34 pm, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
> It is not totally unrelated per se, because I believe that the USE flag
> system was initially designed with the idea that the same USE flags
> would be used for most or all packages.  If per-package USE flag
> documentation is needed, it clearly indicates that the same flags are
> not to be used for all packages.  Thus, it is clear that there is a
> need for per-package use flag specification.
I think that, ideally, we should have many very specific per-package USE flags 
and have group them into aliases at different levels, the vaguest level being 
something such as "desktop" or "server" followed by things like "gui", 
"scanning" and similar. This would allow someone to, for example, set their 
USE="desktop -gui" if they want a console desktop system or USE="server gui 
- -qt" if they want a server with a GUI, but not using Qt if another toolkit is 
available.
It'd probably be very difficult to implement this, though, especially in the 
current portage.
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Luke-Jr
Developer, Gentoo Linux
http://www.gentoo.org/
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