Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: making USE_EXPANDed variables incremental

[Donnie Berkholz]

Stephen Bennett wrote:
> Following a discussion in #gentoo-portage earlier this evening, it was
> suggested that I send out an RFC email for this. So, does anyone object
> to requiring that any variable listed in USE_EXPAND be treated as
> incremental, at least as far as profile inheritance is concerned?

That means that the base profiles must have a minimal setting that is
added to in lower profiles, rather than a reasonable default that's
entirely reset in lower profiles (perhaps to a smaller setting), correct?

I'm not a huge fan of that, if that's what it requires, since there is
no way of subtracting USE_EXPAND settings that I know about.

Thanks,
Donnie