On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 04:33:08PM +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: > would someone more competent explain to me, why
you approached this all wrong ... you were supposed to say something like "can we get rid of this hidden feature please" i see no reason to keep use.defaults around anymore, i think the rest of our config/profile system covers for it adequately and in a manner that doesnt confused people > - this feature even exists it made sense when it was designed ... back in the much, much older days of portage > - why has a mass of things been commited in there recently because they belong there > - confusing users the file has always confused people, whether they be user or dev > - rendering /etc/portage/package.keywords useless (install a dep for one > particular ebuild and enjoy the USE flag enabled globally) unrelated > - causing unwanted results (I did not really install app-text/recode for the > purpose of enabling USE=recode globally and make it clash with half of php USE > flags e.g.) > - causing pointless breakage/bailing out in current ebuilds for users that > have > not touched USE flags on their system at all you're confusing "feature" with "bug" ;) -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
