On 08/06/2012 04:45 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> actually both gentoo ebuild users and the tweakers end up on our doorstep
> asking us for help with their tweaked builds. on our irc/email lists. though
> it's nice to help - we help again and again and repeat ourselves that those
> options are for people who know exactly what they are doing with the option.
> if
> u dont know then accept defaults without a --enable or --disable in sight. :)
> u
> do more than that then deal with your own problems - they never do though. we
> end up with them. so the future is many fewer options. u'll be patching src to
> change things and that tends to be a barrier high enough to keep the tweakers
> out :)
>
That's not quite true. At least with *good* ebuilds in current Gentoo.
*Good* ebuilds themselves provides configure options such that the
default configure options are sane. For example look at the default
options for evas:
~ยป eix -e evas
[I] media-libs/evas
Available versions: (~)1.0.1 (~)1.1.0 (~)1.2.1 (**)9999{tbz2}[1]
{X altivec bidi +bmp +cache directfb doc +eet fbcon +fontconfig gif gles
+ico +jpeg mmx nls opengl +png +ppm +psd sdl sse sse3 static-libs svg
tga +threads tiff xcb xpm}
You see all the + things? It means that those configure options (USE
flags in Gentoo terminology) are all enabled by default and the rest are
disabled by default. This means that if the user is not a ricer, then
he/she will be compiling evas with just the options that are not likely
to break evas. If the user is a ricer, he/she will tweak around with all
the configure flags irrespective of the linux distro. Gentoo just makes
this tweaking easier.
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