Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 07/02/17 08:27 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>>
>> The thread wasn't about discouraging IUSE defaults, rather to decide
>> when they are appropriate. You cannot omit "pkginternal" from USE_ORDER,
>> because you will break all of the packages whose defaults are either
>> critical to the package, or prevent a REQUIRED_USE conflict.
>>
>
> OK, can we all decide out of this thread, that if any package is
> enabling critical functionality via IUSE-defaults (or rather, IUSE
> defaults alone), that this be addressed through package.use.force in
> profiles OR through removal of the flag?

No.

>
> That at least seems like a positive first step to helping address
> Michael's concerns, and should generally help all end-users.
>

It only helps users who want to manually enable every single feature
they use with an otherwise-minimal configuration.

If you want to create a minimal profile feel free, and if you want to
propose some way for everybody to have their cake and eat it too
without maintainers manually maintaining per-package flags in
profiles, that is fine as well.  However, I think your proposal to use
IUSE defaults only for REQUIRED_USE conflicts is a bad one.

-- 
Rich