Hans de Graaff posted on Mon, 21 Jan 2013 08:46:59 +0100 as excerpted: > On Sun, 2013-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > >> We can either set it in the base profile, then there is no need for >> IUSE="+dri". Or we can set it in every single ebuild that has the dri >> flag. I prefer the former because it reduces our maintenance burden. > > [I]t sounds like you want [...] use IUSE="+dri". This would also help > all the people starting out with "-*".
?? How would setting the default using IUSE="+dri" in the ebuilds help those starting out with -*? -* does just that, hard-setting all USE flags as disabled, unless they're specifically enabled later in the USE flag configuration. Thus, it's the same effect on default-enabled-flags, regardless of whether they're default-enabled in the profile or in the ebuilds. [TLDR folks can stop at that.] FWIW, based on this discussion I wondered just how much effect USE- defaults, both the profile and ebuild sort, were having here. Thus, I set -* myself, and have been working thru the changes one at a time. I've a couple packages yet to deal with ATM, but after I resolved enough of the required-use issues for emerge --pretend --newuse @world to even spit out a remerge list, I started with 40-some packages with --newuse changes. More or less what I expected... Most of the changes I've been able to resolve by either adding the flags to the use file sourced by my make.conf, or by deciding I didn't need the flag enabled anyway, and remerging the package without it. I've only added a few flags to package.use, as most of them were used by only the affected packages anyway, at least based on the packages I have installed. FWIW2, I'm /thinking/ about setting up my own profile entirely... or setting it up to cascade only from my custom-selected components, at least, keeping the profile-base for the global package-mask, and perhaps the amd64-no-multilib stuff. I already have zero packages in @system as I've negated all the entries that would otherwise be there, and I'm in the process of zeroing out my dependence on profile default-use... When I'm done with that, I'll take a look at the rest and see... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
