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Danny van Dyk wrote:
>>From my point of view as an architecture dev and releng member: Having
> all default USE-flags at one spot (per profile) _is_ easier to maintain.
> 
> Ciaran has a point here: Default useflags have annoyed me in the past
> while building releases, and having to change several packages (and 
> redigesting them) for the snapshot is way more:
>  * complicated
>  * time-consuming
>  * error-prone
> than changing them in the profiles directory.

On the other hand, package.use.mask could be used to mask out those flags
in the profile (if necessary).

Zac
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