Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding enabling IUSE defaults application in ebuild

2009-06-13 Thread Federico Ferri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > Hi > > I'd like to raise your attention on problem of in my opinion overusing IUSE > defaults in various packages. > Currently there seems to be no policy whatsoever at least advising when it's > appropriate to add + and when

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding enabling IUSE defaults application in ebuild

2009-06-08 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Tuesday 09 June 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 08 June 2009 18:25:18 Robert Buchholz wrote: > > And personally, I hate having to enable USE=png on all my desktop > > machines so I can use a desktop background > > eh ? USE=png is in all default desktop profiles ... You are correct, I s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding enabling IUSE defaults application in ebuild

2009-06-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 08 June 2009 18:25:18 Robert Buchholz wrote: > And personally, I hate having to enable USE=png on all my desktop > machines so I can use a desktop background eh ? USE=png is in all default desktop profiles ... -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding enabling IUSE defaults application in ebuild

2009-06-08 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Maciej Mrozowski wrote: While it usually doesn't do any particular harm (but I guess security and prefix/alt team won't agree on this) - insanely enabling everything by default The Prefix team does not care either way. is not the best idea in my opinion. Of course we need an example. Let's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding enabling IUSE defaults application in ebuild

2009-06-08 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Monday 08 June 2009, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: ... > While it usually doesn't do any particular harm (but I guess security > and prefix/alt team won't agree on this) - insanely enabling > everything by default is not the best idea in my opinion. The Security Team supports all use flag combination

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding enabling IUSE defaults application in ebuild

2009-06-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 08 June 2009 16:12:23 Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > I'd like to raise your attention on problem of in my opinion overusing IUSE > defaults in various packages. > Currently there seems to be no policy whatsoever at least advising when > it's appropriate to add + and when not, so it's just up t

[gentoo-dev] Policy regarding enabling IUSE defaults application in ebuild

2009-06-08 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
Hi I'd like to raise your attention on problem of in my opinion overusing IUSE defaults in various packages. Currently there seems to be no policy whatsoever at least advising when it's appropriate to add + and when not, so it's just up to developer's taste. While it usually doesn't do any part