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tux2015
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 Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:01 pm Post subject: What does offensive USE flag do? |
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| Can anyone clarify the meaning of 'offensive' USE flag. For example, what does it enable for net-misc/youtube-dl? What can be offensive in portage? Any concrete example? |
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eccerr0r
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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Historically some applications have taunts and verbally offensive error messages that the USE flag enables but to be "politically correct" they were opted out. Sudo is one of them, and I also recall the old /usr/games/bin/fortune command also included colorful remarks that may follow the same issues but don't know what package has that now.
I don't know about other applications however. It's up to your discretion wanting these things.
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The Doctor
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml wrote: | | offensive | Enable potentially offensive items in packages |
For sudo it insults you if you mistype your password. I don't know what it does for the particular package you listed.
An example might be in Sabayon Linux if you misuse equo it will tell you several variations of 'read the manual' in increasingly ridiculing ways before simply defaulting to 'go to hell.' The possible objectiveness of having your computer insult your or do something else you might consider offensive is why the useflag exists. Simply because some people might be offended isn't a good reason to exclude something from the portage tree. At best it is a reason to put a warning on it so people can't complain they weren't warned.
EDIT: I see I was slow pressing submit.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 6:21 pm Post subject: ><)))°€ |
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Teegrins, tux2015, et al!
With regards to youtube-dl (and libquvi-scripts, I maybe guess), I believe the flag enables support for “nsfw” sites.
At least that's what the ebuilds told me! ^^
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eccerr0r
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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Then it really should be a "nsfw" flag? :D
Maybe there also needs to be a "parental control" USE flag? :o
Really can't blame the user for pointing to a bad site versus getting vulgar error messages because you don't have a choice upon build...
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Well at least in youtube-dl's case, I'm not sure if it's really necessary (even as it is), or at least I can't imagine a situation where it would be.
As far as I understand, it adds the 'extraction' bits for the specific sites, and it's then possible to use it to download videos from those sites similarly to youtube.
The user would still need the link to a video.
I guess if a browser was managed by, say, a parent, and the little rascals got them naughty links from elsewhere, they would be able to make use of this. How probable is such a scenario though?
I'm not sure if there is any other part (aside from the code) that lists those sites, aside from the --list-extractors option. With that said, I guess it's understandable to have a flag for removing them from that list.
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