Re: [gentoo-dev] Amount of useflags enabled by default

2009-10-24 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 06:24:51PM +0200, Thomas Sachau wrote: > Petteri R??ty schrieb: > > 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 >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Amount of useflags enabled by default

2009-10-24 Thread Thomas Sachau
Alistair Bush schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> i would like to start a discussion about reducing the amount of >> default-enabled USE flags in profiles, especially in inherited basic >> profiles. > > Sounds like a reasonable idea to me, for the base profiles at least. Sure. If we have a desktop/kde subpro

Re: [gentoo-dev] Amount of useflags enabled by default

2009-10-24 Thread Thomas Sachau
Petteri Räty schrieb: > 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, m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Amount of useflags enabled by default

2009-10-24 Thread Thomas Sachau
Sebastian Pipping schrieb: > Thomas Sachau wrote: >> In addition, i see a trend to enabled more more more USE flags (either over >> profiles or via IUSE >> +flag). > > I'm not sure for how much of the IUSE="+foo" cases this applies but I > can explain one of them: > > In xfce-base/xfce4-session

Re: [gentoo-dev] Amount of useflags enabled by default

2009-10-24 Thread Pacho Ramos
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 incl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Amount of useflags enabled by default

2009-10-23 Thread Alistair Bush
> Hi, > > i would like to start a discussion about reducing the amount of > default-enabled USE flags in profiles, especially in inherited basic > profiles. Sounds like a reasonable idea to me, for the base profiles at least. > In addition, i see a trend to enabled more more more USE flags (ei

Re: [gentoo-dev] Amount of useflags enabled by default

2009-10-23 Thread Petteri Räty
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Amount of useflags enabled by default

2009-10-23 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Thomas Sachau wrote: > In addition, i see a trend to enabled more more more USE flags (either over > profiles or via IUSE > +flag). I'm not sure for how much of the IUSE="+foo" cases this applies but I can explain one of them: In xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.6.1-r1 there is +fortune in IUSE bec

[gentoo-dev] Amount of useflags enabled by default

2009-10-23 Thread Thomas Sachau
Hi, i would like to start a discussion about reducing the amount of default-enabled USE flags in profiles, especially in inherited basic profiles. Is there any policy, when they are added, how the reason for addition is documented and when they are removed from profiles? In addition, i see a t