On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:07:37PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> For the others, how large is the benefit of having them switchable?
> At least some of them look like something that wouldn't hurt people if
> it was always-built.

The dev manual states that use flags are to control optional
dependencies and _settings_ which a user may reasonably want to select
[1].

Since the developer gives us the ability to control this with configure
switches, I feel pretty strongly that we should give the user that
control.

William

[1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/index.html