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

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:18:58 -0800 Drake Wyrm <wyrm@haell.com> wrote:
| 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".

...and then watch your system explode because you didn't set various
USE flags which should only be turned off on embedded systems.

use.defaults is bad, mkay?

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