On 13/08/17 11:11, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 08/12/2017 10:52 PM, Duncan wrote: >> How so? Are you arguing that deciding to system-wide switch to/from >> pulseaudio, systemd, or gstreamer is nonsense? >> > The meaning of any one USE flag varies widely across packages. I could > never say "I want to enable USE=gstreamer" for every package in the > tree, because I have no idea what it does for most of them. Setting > USE=whatever globally essentially means "make random changes to my > system" -- hence my wording. > > The meaning of a USE flag is per-package, so per-package is the only > meaningful way to set them. > Which is why we have GLOBAL use flags and LOCAL use flags, right?!
I'm not sure I'm actually reading this discussion right now?! and I'm *not* a dev ...
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