On 15-09-2008 13:20:23 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > For future EAPIs, ARCH could be a regular USE_EXPANDed flag as you > > suggest, and package managers could filter any flag in USE which is > > not listed in IUSE. > > While I don't necessarily disagree with you, my impression is that > most people tend to think that certain profile-specific flags such > as userland_* and kernel_* should be considered as implicit members > of IUSE and therefore they shouldn't be explicitly listed in in IUSE.
Yes, IMO mainly because they should never explicitly be set by users, so they shouldn't get a hint they can set it either. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
