Il 04/05/2013 08:11, Dustin C. Hatch ha scritto:
> On 5/3/2013 16:08, René Neumann wrote:
>> Am 03.05.2013 22:20, schrieb Zac Medico:
>>> Is it worth changing?
>>
>> Nope. What's worth changing is the excessive use of USE_EXPAND for no
>> reason (your described usecase makes sense for reasonable USE_EXPAND
>> stuff like VIDEO_CARDS). But seems like I'm the only one concerned by
>> this, so I should probably rest my case and switch to silent sobbing
>> instead ;-).
>>
>> - René
>>
> I definitely agree with you. USE_EXPAND combined with nearly
> everything on-by-default (ENLIGHTENMENT_PLUGINS, for example) really
> annoys me. There are two ways to "turn off" USE_EXPADed flags:
> explicitly set everything but what you don't want in make.conf, or use
> the fully-qualified flag in make.conf:USE or package.use, which
> defeats the purpose entirely. Both of these are overly verbose, in my
> opinion. I don't know how the over-utilization of USE_EXPAND got
> started, but I would very much like to see it go away.
>
Actually this would not be that bad if USE_EXPAND where immutable (fix
it once and be ok) but they are not and as such suffer the same problem
as USE="-*"
