Re: [gentoo-dev] Local USE defaults

2005-08-19 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 12:10:44AM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Brian Harring wrote: > | Yeah, but the angle I'm pushing for default IUSE's ...er.. use is > | eliminating no* flags, and giving ebuild maintainers more flexibility > | in breaking the package down into conditionals. > | > | I reall

Re: [gentoo-dev] Local USE defaults

2005-08-19 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Harring wrote: | Yeah, but the angle I'm pushing for default IUSE's ...er.. use is | eliminating no* flags, and giving ebuild maintainers more flexibility | in breaking the package down into conditionals. | | I really don't see -* being all that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Local USE defaults

2005-08-18 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 01:18:17PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > Yes, very. Saves us from hacky local USE flag handling by naming them > > > no* or adding them to profiles. > > > > Which then raises the question of whether or not -* in a users USE > > should disable it. > > I say no, since -*

Re: [gentoo-dev] Local USE defaults

2005-08-18 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 01:16:05PM -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > As long as there is a way provided disable the 'default use flags' in > this case referring to the IUSE="+foo" stuff, with a big warning that > says crap generally isn't expected to work great with that setting on, > then thats fine.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Local USE defaults

2005-08-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 18 August 2005 12:31 pm, Brian Harring wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:08:51AM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Brian Harring wrote: > > | Kind of curious about people's opinion on the IUSE default use flag > > | thing, initial syntax was (using the above example) > > | IUSE="+clie

Re: [gentoo-dev] Local USE defaults

2005-08-18 Thread Alec Warner
Brian Harring wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:08:51AM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Brian Harring wrote: | Kind of curious about people's opinion on the IUSE default use flag | thing, initial syntax was (using the above example) | IUSE="+client server" | with client defaulting to on unless

Re: [gentoo-dev] Local USE defaults

2005-08-18 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:08:51AM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Brian Harring wrote: > | Kind of curious about people's opinion on the IUSE default use flag > | thing, initial syntax was (using the above example) > | IUSE="+client server" > | with client defaulting to on unless the user's config

Re: [gentoo-dev] Local USE defaults

2005-08-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Harring wrote: | Kind of curious about people's opinion on the IUSE default use flag | thing, initial syntax was (using the above example) | IUSE="+client server" | with client defaulting to on unless the user's config disables it- | note, stric