On 10/9/19 7:57 PM, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 19:45:34 -0700
> Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>> I'd prefer to disable --autounmask by default and include warnings about
>> harmful behavior in the documentation.
> 
> I think autounmasks behaviour with regards to USE flags is useful,
> (heh), its just everything else it does tends to violate stability
> assumptions.
> 
> For instance, I can see why automatically escalating "arch" to "~arch"
> may be useful in some cases, but its a very dangerous default,
> *especially* for perl.

We can add --autounmask-use=<y|n> option that's enabled by default when
--autounmask is unspecified.

When --autounmask=y is specified, we'll have full autounmask behavior.

When --autounmask=n is specified, we'll have --autounmask-use=n behavior.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac