On Monday 07 February 2005 06:44 pm, Simon Stelling wrote:
> > The only reason I can think of for using no... USE-flags is that the
> > maintainer wants to provide an option for disabling a certain feature,
> > but prefers that it's turned on by default and doesn't like to add an
> > entry to make.defaults in the profile.
>
> Yep, and that's the only problem I see. I don't like the idea of
> disabling something with enabling a switch.

boo hoo, get in line :P

sticking local USE flags in global profile make.defaults is retarded ... this 
is why i filed http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61732 ... everyone 
seems to like it, it just lacks portage implementation

> I know it's evil to use *, but USE="*" says: use everything

actually, USE=* doesnt work ... whoever told you it does lied

so, to sum up:
no* USE flags suck, but until something like Bug 61732 happens, they arent 
going away, deal with it :P
-mike

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