El vie, 23-10-2009 a las 22:54 +0300, Petteri Räty escribió: > Thomas Sachau wrote: > > > > In addition, i see a trend to enabled more more more USE flags (either over > > profiles or via IUSE > > +flag). Whats the reason for forcing a big load of default enabled USE > > flags on every user including > > more dependencies, more compile time, more wasted disk space and more > > possible vulnerabilities > > except some users, who complain about a missing feature and are not able to > > think and enable a USE > > flag for that feature? > > > > One possible reason is that our packages should follow upstream policy > and maybe upstreams usually like to keep things enabled rather than > disabled. > > Regards, > Petteri > >
I don't see any problem in enabling some USE flags by default but, maybe, would be interesting to have a place where people could consult why some USEs are enabled and, specially, disabled by default. The problem is where to write that information :-/ (into the ebuild, into metadata file...) Best regards
