Re: [gentoo-dev] punting the use.defaults feature

[Drake Wyrm <wyrm@haell.com>]

Jakub Moc <jakub@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Well, I don't think so... If I want to enable a feature for one
> specific ebuild and a USE flag in /etc/portage/package.use pulls in a
> dep, that in turn enables that use flag globally, it's obviously not
> what I intended and forces me to add yet another -flag into make.conf

If you don't want portage to employ dark magic in guessing which use
flags you want enabled, don't let it. Specify your use flags explicitly.

Put USE="-* oneuse twouse reduse blueuse" in make.conf to set the
globals, and _then_ start tweaking in "package.use".


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