as one of the new sane features of the next portage-2.1_pre release, we're looking to cut out use.defaults support
existing stable users wont be affected as the 2.0.x versions will continue to carry support for this, but some of you stable users may notice some USE flags suddenly "disappearing" to recap, use.defaults inserts USE flags for you based upon what packages you have installed when you havent declared a preference. for example, if you have neither '-cups' or 'cups' in your USE (either in your make.conf, profile, env, whatever), but you do have the net-print/cups package installed, portage will add 'cups' to your USE -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
