On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 06:57 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > as one of the new sane features of the next portage-2.1_pre release, we're > looking to cut out use.defaults support
I see this as a good and bad thing. Good in one hand that less autojunk would be enabled like python/perl bindings not being added to every program on your system that supports it. Bad in the other hand I see the state of profiles getting worse=more bloated. The autouse itself is not a bad feature or idea if it were used properly. Problem is that it's not been used properly. If it were limited to simple things like just X and the things that actually make sense then it would even be fine to keep and would allow some of the more bloated (default-linux) profiles to be cleaned up. Shrug. I like the existing behavior and the power of deciding for myself when and where I want to take advantage of USE_ORDER= > existing stable users wont be affected as the 2.0.x versions will continue to > carry support for this, but some of you stable users may notice some USE > flags suddenly "disappearing" > > to recap, use.defaults inserts USE flags for you based upon what packages you > have installed when you havent declared a preference. for example, if you > have neither '-cups' or 'cups' in your USE (either in your make.conf, > profile, env, whatever), but you do have the net-print/cups package > installed, portage will add 'cups' to your USE > -mike -- solar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
