On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 07:50:14PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> == tl;dr ==
> 
> We would be better off with respect to IUSE changes and revisions if we
> deleted the --changed-use and --newuse flags right now, and just
> required developers to revbump when changing IUSE.
> 
> Package managers get simpler, documentation gets simpler, the user
> interface gets simpler, and behavior becomes more uniform and predictable.
> 
> Please let me know what you think.

There is a down side you didn't talk about -- more work for the arch
teams and for us in terms of stabilizations.

When we revbump, a new revision automatically gets ~ keywords on all arches
unless we make an exception. If a revision changes iuse but could still
be built with the stable tree, I would want to be able to commit this
type of revision  directly to stable.

William