On 08/22/2017 02:44 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > From a Gentoo Infrastructure team perspective, we'd strongly prefer USE > flags, because that fits better into existing configuration management > tools, almost none of which have handling for EXTRA_ECONF or rebuilding > after EXTRA_ECONF changes (rebuild-on-USE-change is supported). > > And please do bring that option back, we do use it for NRPE in a limited > set of cases (eg to avoid hard-coding passwords into the NRPE config). >
It's back, but the flag is masked. Since the USE flag mask is going to retroactively hit people who use --newuse, I suggest adding net-analyzer/nrpe -command-args to your /etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask right now, to avoid surprises.
