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From: Peter Gordon <codergeek42@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force as a complement to use.mask in profiles
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 04:45:03
Message-Id: 44D81592.8030708@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force as a complement to use.mask in profiles by Zac Medico
1 Zac Medico wrote:
2 > The difference with use.force is that it prevents flags, that are deemed
3 > extremely important, from being accidentally disabled by the user.
4
5 If they were so "extremely important" then they would not be optional,
6 and hence not even be USE flags at all, no? Or am I missing something?
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