Duncan wrote:
> hasufell posted on Fri, 11 Sep 2015 22:34:04 +0200 as excerpted:
>
>> USE flags in gentoo are the best and the worst thing at the same time.
>> They are also mostly the main reason people don't like gentoo, because
>> USE flags are (for todays situation) pretty much not an appropriate
>> pattern to reflect real-world configuration. To be more precise... USE
>> flags are first-class citizens and there is only one layer of them.
> I agree with the one-layer problem, but just to say, without something 
> like USE flags, despite their single-layer-problem, I'd not be using 
> gentoo.  Perhaps better can be done, but in the absence of better at the 
> moment, for better or worse, USE flags do get the job done, and I'd hate 
> to be without either them or an at least equally (if not more) powerful 
> replacement.
>

+1 

If there is not some way to disable/enable things, there is little point
is using Gentoo.  Actually, Gentoo loses something huge that makes
Gentoo different.  Besides, how would you tell a package how and what to
compile without USE flags??

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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