Re: Suitable USE flag name for stuff that requires non volatile memory

Mike Frysinger <vapiergentoo.org> posted
200705120647.39160.vapiergentoo.org, excerpted
below, on  Sat, 12 May
2007 06:47:38 -0400:

> On Friday 11 May 2007, Roy Marples wrote:
>> livecd
>> (only a livecd is volative, even embedded devices
have non volative
>> storage)
> 
> i would use that myself ... perhaps even tie in
USE=netboot ...

Except that livecd is entirely unsuitable.  The description
says it's for 
internal use only, not to be set on a standard installation,
while Roy's 
post specifically stated that those merging the package for
use on IPv6 
will probably want the functionality on.

(I OTOH, would want it off, for the same reason I'm running
the 
macchanger module, have cookies off by default, and block
the likes of 
doubleclick.  I like my IP address actually changing once in
awhile, 
certainly more frequently than my ISP tends to change it
given the same 
MAC address every time.  My ISP may be able to associate my
IP with my 
name and account based on the records for the cable modem
registered in 
my name, but that doesn't mean I want every doubleclick and
google.com 
doing it, at least not without going to a bit of trouble. 
Thus, using a 
non-transparent flag such as livecd and defaulting it to on,
or simply 
hard-deping it, isn't a particularly nice option either.)

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