On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 9:47 AM Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On 07/20/2018 07:55 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > While I agree that setting USE=-udev isn't the same as leaving it to > > package defaults, you further claim that setting this globally causes > > severe breakage in some cases. Can you provide an example of this? > > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/640226
This doesn't involve USE=-udev, which is the flag we're talking about. > Or see any thread on the dangers of USE="-*" which is dangerous for the > same reason. We aren't setting USE=-* either. I get that globally manipulating flags CAN cause issues. And yet we do it from time to time. I'm looking for evidence that in this particular case there is a problem. -- Rich
