On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 11:03:41PM -0400, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/03/2013 05:28 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 5:08 PM, René Neumann <li...@necoro.eu> wrote: > >> Am 03.05.2013 22:20, schrieb Zac Medico: > >>> Is it worth changing? > >> > >> Nope. What's worth changing is the excessive use of USE_EXPAND for no > >> reason (your described usecase makes sense for reasonable USE_EXPAND > >> stuff like VIDEO_CARDS). But seems like I'm the only one concerned by > >> this, so I should probably rest my case and switch to silent sobbing > >> instead ;-). > >> > >> - René > >> > > > > Well, I do agree that they are overused. For example, GRUB_PLATFORMS > > is used by only one package. > > > > I would convert it back into a normal set of use flags, but that would > > mean any users of sys-boot/grub:2 would have to update their > > configuration. I don't think it is worth it at this point. > > > > Considering grub:2 isn't really used by the majority of users I feel > compelled to note that you could convert now and just pick a sane set of > use defaults. I know it's been a while since EAPI2 was introduced but I > do love that little feature... :-)
I would also like to chime in here and point out that all grub:2 users are ~arch users. If we were going to break stable it would be more of a shake-up, but since it isn't happening that way, I would say go for it. ~arch users are expected to be able to handle things like this. William
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