On 13/08/17 11:11, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 08/12/2017 10:52 PM, Duncan wrote:
>> How so?  Are you arguing that deciding to system-wide switch to/from 
>> pulseaudio, systemd, or gstreamer is nonsense?
>>
> The meaning of any one USE flag varies widely across packages. I could
> never say "I want to enable USE=gstreamer" for every package in the
> tree, because I have no idea what it does for most of them. Setting
> USE=whatever globally essentially means "make random changes to my
> system" -- hence my wording.
>
> The meaning of a USE flag is per-package, so per-package is the only
> meaningful way to set them.
>
Which is why we have GLOBAL use flags and LOCAL use flags, right?!

I'm not sure I'm actually reading this discussion right now?! and I'm
*not* a dev ...