On 05/03/2013 11:11 PM, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: > 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.
FWIW, portage supports both positive and negative wildcard settings for USE_EXPAND flags like USE="video_cards_* -enlightenment_plugins_*". > 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. -- Thanks, Zac
