On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:03:42 +0100 Carsten Lohrke <carlo@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| On Monday 26 December 2005 18:07, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > Because it makes sense. For any application which has IUSE="emboss",
| > chances are emboss should be enabled. There was a long discussion
| > about this on the -user list a while back where I ended up posting a
| > newbie-friendly explanation of the whole thing. Perhaps you could
| > hunt it down on marc or gmane and post a link here...
| 
| Probably you should have provided the link, because the question that
| comes to mind is, why this dependency is optional at all, when it
| should be enabled anyways!?

Because there are legitimate reasons for turning it off. They're just
significantly less likely to occur than the reasons for wanting it
turned on.

And of course, if you don't use any apps that have IUSE="emboss", the
default value of the USE flag is entirely irrelevant to you.

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