Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE groups) and negatives

[Philip Webb]

050306 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> We need to decide upon a solution to the -flags problem.
> The proposed solutions are:
> 1) Disallow all negatives. Disadvantages: we don't tend to disallow things
> just because users could shoot themselves in the foot with them.

that's not a disadvantage, let alone a plural of them (smile):
it's a tradition or merely a long-standing practice.

is there an actual disadvantage to disallowing all negatives ?
if not, that seems to be the simplest & least troublesome alternative.

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