> I'm curious about what the IUSE flag should be set to in an ebuild.
> Does it contain all possible values that the package could use or
> should it contain conditional type statements?  ie.  If a package
> needs ncurses, and could possibly use ipv6 and socks5 as a configure
> option should it be
> 
> IUSE="ncurses ipv6 socks5"

USE flags per definition define _optional_ features. So in your case, if the package _requires_ ncurses, you don't list it in IUSE (since you
don't even pay attention to the "ncurses" USE flag anyway).

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