Am Sonntag, 7. April 2024, 04:03:01 CEST schrieb Michael Orlitzky:
> On Sat, 2024-04-06 at 17:06 +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> > Hi all, 
> > 
> > so here's a small update on the state of the 23.0 profiles:
> > 
> 
> Why was this silently added to make.defaults for all 23.0 profiles?
> 
> > # This just makes sense nowadays, if only for distfiles...          
> > USE="lzma zstd"

Uhh, I dont really remember, I think some Chinese-sounding guy asked
me for it... (j/k) 

Jokes aside, we did have bz2 in the default useflags for ages, and 
at the time this made a lot of sense since xz/lzma and zstd were
steadily becoming the most prevalent compression algorithms.

And for anyone interested in the timeline, this was one of the first
additions.

commit 99a7cb9e0b1728ca75242ddfee6357dc008bd1cd
Author:     Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfri...@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: Sun Nov 13 19:26:40 2022 +0100
Commit:     Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfri...@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: Sun Nov 13 19:27:36 2022 +0100

    profiles: Set USE="xz zstd" in 23.0


-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfri...@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)

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