Re: [gentoo-dev] Local USE defaults

[Brian Harring <ferringb@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 12:10:44AM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Brian Harring wrote:
> | Yeah, but the angle I'm pushing for default IUSE's ...er.. use is
> | eliminating no* flags, and giving ebuild maintainers more flexibility
> | in breaking the package down into conditionals.
> |
> | I really don't see -* being all that useful long term frankly, since
> | the major usage of it I've seen is either within cascaded profiles, or
> | nuking autouse; people do block profile use flags also, but killing
> | autouse falls in with killing profiles :)
> 
> I don't think that having -* not actually do -* is a good idea. And most
> people adding local flags don't really consider the -* case so creating
> no* flags isn't a major concern.
> 
> ~From my POV, -* is expected to not work well, but it should do what it
> suggests: subtract everything.
Meh.
-* 's meaning right now is to nuke all USE flags that portage tries to 
'help' in adding.  Having it nuke all default use seems wrong, since 
people *currently* use -* to block autouse crap, and -* isn't what 
they signed up for initially.

Different flag imo seems wise, rather then grandfathering people into 
it; nuking what the profile offers should be available, but I don't 
think nuking default IUSE should be nuked as an added bonus of trying 
to disable auto-use/profile cruft.

Thoughts?
~harring

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