On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 10:26:54PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> Dnia 2013-06-01, o godz. 15:20:32
> William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> 
> > On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 08:00:22PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> > > If a switch toggles a feature that does not introduce additional
> > > dependencies, is small and can be toggled from within the app, a flag
> > > is useless.
> >  
> > If someone never wants the feature in the first place, and they can save
> > space and build time by not building or installing the man pages,
> > executables, config files, etc for it, forcing it onto their systems is
> > an unnecessary waste of build time and bloating their systems.
> 
> Unless the complexity added by a dozen USE flags actually *wastes more
> time* than installing the manpage. Especially if he ends up rebuilding
> something big because someone smart decided to add USE flag he wouldn't
> ever expect to be there.

Sure there may be some rebuilds initially, but that also depends on when
the use flags are added. If they are added with a new release and IUSE
defaults are set so that the change in functionality is minimized, the
chance of people having to rebuild because of the use flags is
minimized.

William