On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 11:27:20 -0700
Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:

> The defaults certainly do not work perfectly in all situations. However,
> there are a vast number of situations where using --autounmask-continue
> will make appropriate package.mask changes without the need for any user
> intervention.

Its really handy for use flags.

Its really handy for mixed arch/~arch where it promotes arch to ~arch as needed.

Its really really bad however to have a default of accepting ** and
package.unmask as a primary go-to solution.

That default gets people using broken openssl and experimental packages
blindly without them ever having intended on getting into experimental
waters.