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

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:18:58AM -0800, Drake Wyrm 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.

or we can just remove the dark magic and be done with it

use.defaults is almost like letting ./configure scripts auto detect
settings on the fly imho
-mike
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