On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 12:36 -0600, Joe McCann wrote: > > For the record, the eds flag was > added as a default flag because every 3rd gnome user would file bugs or > complain via forums because they installed gnome, found no > evolution-data-server integration, and then be bummed when they had to > recompile packages again. This whole thread seems to have come from a > misunderstanding of how use.defaults work and 20 min of boredom. >
I'm relatively ignorant of USE Flag intricacies, so please forgive me if things don't 'fit'. Is it feasible and or useful to have a 'meta-flag' that that enables all the 'necessary' USE flags for a given group of packages? So something like USE='meta-<flagname>'. This has the distinction of being a meta-flag, and as such nothing really gets turned on 'behind the users back', advanced users can look into it and see what is being enabled by it and USE='-flag' for the flags the users doesn't need/want, and expert users would just not use it. This way meta packages like KDE and Gnome can have their own meta-flag to do what the need with. It also seems to me that more things will need to 'just work' as our user-base becomes larger and, on average, less advanced. We could amend the desktop guide to include something like USE='meta-gnome' to the gnome section. And similar to other meta-flags. This may add an unnecessary level of complexity to the use flag system, but also may be very useful. -- Lares Moreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | LRU: 400755 http://counter.li.org lares/irc.freenode.net | Gentoo x86 Arch Tester | ::0 Alberta, Canada Public Key: 0D46BB6E @ subkeys.pgp.net | Encrypted Mail Preferred Key fingerprint = 0CA3 E40D F897 7709 3628 C5D4 7D94 483E 0D46 BB6E
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