Re: [gentoo-dev] arch-cruft in use.mask makes me angry

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 05 July 2006 04:55, Simon Stelling wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > can someone remind me why our arch USE flags are in an "opt-out" system
> > rather than "opt-in" ?  instead of adding things like:
> > to every non-x86 profile, why dont we mask these things in base/use.mask
> > and then un-mask them in default-linux/x86 ?  doesnt that make more sense
> > ?
>
> I asked myself the same question about two weeks ago and made up a huge
> patch, I just didn't get around to verify it's really correct and
> complete. I can mail it to you if you want :)

please do
-mike