On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 07/19/2018 05:51 PM, Ben Kohler wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'd like to propose adding USE=udev to our linux profiles (in >> profiles/default/linux/make.defaults probably). This flag is already >> enabled on desktop profiles but it also affects quite a few packages >> used on non-desktop linux systems. >> >> ... >> >> Any objections to this idea? >> > > Please add defaults per-package, only where they make sense. Enabling > flags globally creates a huge headache for people that want them off. > > If I want to undo your new flag, I have to set USE="-udev" globally, and > that clobbers any important per-package defaults that maintainers have set.
I understand the concern at least in theory. But can you please give me a concrete example of a package where you don't want USE=udev and another example of a package where you do? Grepping the tree, I see the following packages pulled in with USE=udev predominantly: virtual/libudev virtual/libgudev virtual/udev A few others have some additional dependencies enabled with USE=udev: app-emulation/libvirt: x11-libs/libpciaccess dev-qt/qtgui/qtgui: sys-kernel/linux-headers gnome-base/gnome-desktop: sys-apps/hwids media-gfx/iscan-data: dev-libs/libxslt, media-gfx/sane-backends sys-auth/consolekit: x11-libs/libdrm sys-fs/dosfstools: virtual/pkgconfig What dependency are you trying to avoid? Or is it just a design issue?
