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

[Rich Freeman]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 9:47 AM Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
>
> On 07/20/2018 07:55 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> >
> > While I agree that setting USE=-udev isn't the same as leaving it to
> > package defaults, you further claim that setting this globally causes
> > severe breakage in some cases.  Can you provide an example of this?
> >
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/640226

This doesn't involve USE=-udev, which is the flag we're talking about.

> Or see any thread on the dangers of USE="-*" which is dangerous for the
> same reason.

We aren't setting USE=-* either.

I get that globally manipulating flags CAN cause issues.  And yet we
do it from time to time.  I'm looking for evidence that in this
particular case there is a problem.

-- 
Rich