Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > 1. They can STILL populate /etc/portage/package.use > 2. They could manually install a package with one-time specified USE > > Why do we need another mechanism to control what flags a package gets > installed
We do not *need* it. By why reject it if you can get it for free by just making the it transparent to the user? The user should be able to decide e.g. when to clean it up and select perhaps e.g. only a certain classes which should be cleaned up (e.g. by removing all/certain cpu_flags_x86 and letting them regenerate).
