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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 20:59:48
Message-Id: 9c079790-a3ae-01b1-5250-43645982cd5e@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults by Daniel Campbell
1 On 02/09/2017 03:41 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote:
2 > That's a great question. Based on a cursory look at make.conf's manpage,
3 > USE_ORDER without 'pkginternal' will ignore IUSE defaults as intended.
4 >
5
6 This has already been suggested like five times =P
7
8 So long as people insist on using IUSE defaults for flags that are
9 critical to the package and to satisfy REQUIRED_USE (sprinkled liberally
10 throughout the tree), this won't work. You'll turn off the defaults that
11 are critical, too, and throw a wrench into dependency resolution.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>