Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > Actually, I think there used to be an mplayer USE flag that behaved in > exactly this way - it was associated with RealPlayer &/or their > codecs. > > However I would assume this to be the exception rather than the rule, > and one would generally assume that USE="x y z" adds support for x, y, > z.
Maybe not all that exceptional... consider the case of users who don't run gnome desktop but want certain gnome tools... would they not leave gnome at `-gnome'?