On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 01:18:17PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > Yes, very. Saves us from hacky local USE flag handling by naming them > > > no* or adding them to profiles. > > > > Which then raises the question of whether or not -* in a users USE > > should disable it. > > I say no, since -* is mainly for killing off auto-use crap and > > profiles. > > doesnt matter to me one way or the other ... may be confusing to users though > who do `USE=-* emerge blah -pv` and see flags enabled Yeah, but the angle I'm pushing for default IUSE's ...er.. use is eliminating no* flags, and giving ebuild maintainers more flexibility in breaking the package down into conditionals.
I really don't see -* being all that useful long term frankly, since the major usage of it I've seen is either within cascaded profiles, or nuking autouse; people do block profile use flags also, but killing autouse falls in with killing profiles :) ~harring
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