Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles

[Ben Kohler]

On 07/19/2018 05:00 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:

> Please add defaults per-package, only where they make sense. Enabling
> flags globally creates a huge headache for people that want them off.
>
> If I want to undo your new flag, I have to set USE="-udev" globally, and
> that clobbers any important per-package defaults that maintainers have set.
>

I was well aware of that when I prepared this proposal, and it's true of 
every USE flag in any profile's make.defaults.  I still believe it's the 
correct course of action.

Thanks,

Ben