On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 11:22:24AM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > 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
I don't recommend masking it. If it is off by default, you can always output a warning via ewarn if users enable it. William
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