I'm actually surprised those USE flags are not local. Except for 3dfx, I have never seen them. And yes, I agree, this is a topic for gentoo-dev. Can someone move it there somehow?
Best regards, Andy On 9 October 2016 at 23:28, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Ayush <sixpointz...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > I've already raised a bug report about this issue over here [1]. There > are > > several global USE flags defined here [2] that should be local according > to > > the this [3] definition. Some of these USE flags are - > > > > 3dfx > > pcntl > > inifile > > sharedmem > > simplexml > > wddx > > oci8-instant-client > > qdbm > > tokenizer > > > > Shouldn't these USE flags be local? Most of them are applicable to only > 2-3 > > packages or sometimes even a single package. > > This would be a reasonable topic for discussion on the gentoo-dev mailing > list. > >