On 16/11/2010, at 10:28pm, David W Noon wrote: > ... > Again, the defaults are chosen for stability with Gentoo first; > secondly, there are no fixed defaults -- or "out-of-box" configuration > -- from upstream, as the USE flags are simply parameterizing > the ./configure script via autotools.
I'm not familiar with autotools specifically, but back in the days before I used Gentoo, when there were a couple of packages that weren't in my distro's package manager that I compiled "by hand" I used to just do something like `./configure && make`. I could choose to select a different configuration by saying something like `./configure --with-ipv6`, but there were usually 30 or so options for which I made no selection. Surely what `./configure` does if I don't make any choice about its compilation option is to be considered a "default"? Stroller.
