On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:09:32 +0100 "Stuart Herbert"
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| The downside of it (and it's a big one) is that we'd be putting
| metadata about a package into a profile, instead of into the ebuild
| where arguably it belongs - and where the rest of the metadata already
| is.

Except that a USE flag's state isn't metadata. It's something that
comes from the profile.

| That'll make life harder for folks on o.g.o.

Perhaps you should look into getting Portage to allow separate profiles
per repository. That'd get around the overlay issues...

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