On Thursday 15 January 2004 16:33, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
>
> Per-package USE flags is being worked on, but won't be around for a long
> time.  USE should never be determined by installed packages, but rather
> always by the user.

They are actually in 2.0.50_pre?? but what we really want is useflag 
dependencies. They are comming to, but are not yet there.

> netcat is a much better tool for such a task.  I think I can speak for
> most of us when I say that we feel very strongly about never adding
> telnet to the default profiles, as it is simply inviting trouble.

Especially telnetd, but the client indeed is also not needed if netcat is 
there

Paul

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