On Sun, 2013-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > We can either set it in the base profile, then there is no need for > IUSE="+dri". Or we can set it in every single ebuild that has the dri > flag. I prefer the former because it reduces our maintenance burden.
You make it sound like these two options are equivalent, but I don't think they are. Setting the option in the profile tells me: "Here's this option you can play with, and we think you might need it. Or not." Setting the option in the ebuild tells me: "You know, we are nice and give you this option, but really you should keep this turned on. Really." >From the descriptions it sounds like you want the latter effect, and thus use IUSE="+dri". This would also help all the people starting out with "-*". Hans
