>>>>> On Thu, 9 Jun 2016, Michał Górny wrote:

>> That would be a policy violation. Packages should pick a reasonable
>> default if flags are conflicting, but not force users to
>> micro-manage their flags.

> Who did establish that *idiotic* policy and why is he still a
> developer?

Michał,
You may want to reconsider your tone.

The policy was established when documenting REQUIRED_USE for EAPI 4,
and it is based on consensus in bug 353624 [1] and in the gentoo-dev
mailing list [2,3].

Ulrich


[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353624#c6
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/69755/focus=69772
[3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/69755/focus=69776

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