On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 23:55:24 +0100 Michiel de Bruijne
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip "no* flags are evil" stuff>
| What do you think?

Sounds like something I mentioned a while back :)

http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/docs/rants-to-dev/use-mask.txt

Anyway, they're only a problem when a no* flag disables a dep. I asked
for this to go into policy a couple of times, but it didn't happen. If
The Doc existed, which it doesn't, I'd add a note to it explaining why
no* flags are a bad idea.

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