On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Sebastian Beßler <sebast...@darkmetatron.de> wrote: > On 01.04.2015 19:28, Róbert Čerňanský wrote: > >> Big advantage of automatic deps over --autounmask is that auto deps >> would not mess with user configuration files in /etc. Changed USE >> flags would be stored internally by portage. > > Ok, but then you need a database (another file in /etc/portage/) for all of > the active use flags that are set by the installed packages. That or every > emerge has to scan and parse every ebuild of all installed packages, adding > a high delay.
This is what portage already has to do with the list of installed packages. Doing it for installed USE flags is just more of the same. I suspect that portage has to do this anyway just to make sure that the current config is still valid, or to see if --newuse should cause a change, and so on. -- Rich
