On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:43:08 -0400 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Placing the default USE flags all in the profiles amounts to profile > duplication where-ever you want to use the ebuilds -> this is > annoying. This is exactly why we have cascading profiles, no? > So that I DON'T need to emerge kde-meta only to find that I needed QT > with opengl support. It's a USE dep; it's not as easily > representable in a default IUSE format; but it's relatively easy to > add opengl to QT's default use in a profile and say "KDE requires qt > with openGL support and most of our QT users are KDE users." There > exists a qualifier there; that Users exist and provided feedback. So you put opengl in a profile package.use for qt. As soon as you invoke the argument that KDE needs it enabled in Qt, it becomes a repository-level issue, not an ebuild-level one. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
