On Saturday 14 October 2006 04:00, Richard Brown wrote:
> man portage says that package.use is one depend atom per line.

that addresses the "we can do it" but not the "we should do it"

maintaining a large list of defaults in a profile is ugly ... instead of 
having all the information self contained in the ebuild, you need to keep 
multiple files in sync which can easily lead to bit rot (which we've seen 
plenty of with package.mask and use.*desc files)
-mike

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