Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for dangerous USE flags

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 11:22:24AM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 08/22/2017 02:44 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> > From a Gentoo Infrastructure team perspective, we'd strongly prefer USE
> > flags, because that fits better into existing configuration management
> > tools, almost none of which have handling for EXTRA_ECONF or rebuilding
> > after EXTRA_ECONF changes (rebuild-on-USE-change is supported).
> > 
> > And please do bring that option back, we do use it for NRPE in a limited
> > set of cases (eg to avoid hard-coding passwords into the NRPE config).
> > 
> 
> It's back, but the flag is masked. Since the USE flag mask is going to
> retroactively hit people who use --newuse, I suggest adding

I don't recommend masking it. If it is off by default, you can always
output a warning via ewarn if users enable it.

William


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