[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: USE flags in virtuals, to allow a specific provider to be determined

[Duncan]

Michał Górny posted on Sat, 26 Jul 2014 10:53:21 +0200 as excerpted:

> USE_EXPAND are global by definition. We ought fight with the abuse of
> USE_EXPAND rather than make another abuse legitimate. Especially that
> you're going to increase a lot of new variables quickly for no really
> good reason.

Well, USE flags are global by definition, unless set differently in 
package.use, as well.

And if pacho's single VIRTUAL use-expand variable idea is taken, that's 
only one instead of the many in my proposal.

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