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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] berkdb and gdbm in global USE defaults
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 2:54 AM, Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Then there is no need to think about what is enabled globally or not.
>> Point being, use REQUIRED_USE sparingly, and rarely a good idea to
>> block things with common global USE flags, or demand a local USE flag
>> based on a default enabled global USE flag without locally USE
>> defaulting that global flag too - and other such cases.
>
> I didn't really mean for this to turn into a thread about the merits
> of REQUIRED_USE; in hindsight I should have left out that first
> sentence.
>
> Regardless of the REQUIRED_USE discussion, I don't think it makes
> sense to have berkdb and gdbm in USE in make.defaults. I would like to
> move them to IUSE defaults or package.use if necessary.

I think you should feel free to proceed with such a change.

FWIW, disabling these USE flags (and fortran) are among the first
changes I made to a new make.conf.