>>>>> On Fri, 10 Jun 2016, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 00:18:44 +0200 > Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >>>>> On Thu, 9 Jun 2016, Michał Górny wrote: >> > Who did establish that *idiotic* policy and why is he still a >> > developer? >> >> Michał, >> You may want to reconsider your tone. >> >> The policy was established when documenting REQUIRED_USE for EAPI 4, >> and it is based on consensus in bug 353624 [1] and in the gentoo-dev >> mailing list [2,3].
> Really, that policy predates REQUIRED_USE, and even EAPIs... In the > olden days, the rule was that USE flags were for things that were > optional, and that if something wasn't optional, then it shouldn't > be controlled by USE flags. You are right, the word "established" above isn't accurate. Rather, the existing policy was confirmed after introduction of REQUIRED_USE. Ulrich
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