Michał Górny schrieb:
2. Packages use REQUIRED_USE to force an appropriate choice.That would be a policy violation. Packages should pick a reasonable default if flags are conflicting, but not force users to micro-manage their flags.Who did establish that *idiotic* policy and why is he still a developer? The whole *point of USE Flags* is to let people micro-manage stuff. Picking up a random default makes flags meaningless, confusing and makes it impossible to establish appropriate USE dependencies.
I assume "micro-manage" means users maintaining extensive lists of per-package flags in package.use, which I agree with ulm is to be avoided.
Setting the USE flags once in make.conf would not qualify as micro-managing in my opinion.
There is an exception though, in cases where this breaks reverse USE dependencies, it may be allowed and necessary to use REQUIRED_USE[0].
Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn[0] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/index.html#conflicting-use-flags
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