[gentoo-user] USE flag order confusion

[Harry Putnam]

I want to use a global USE flag of -sasl in make.conf.

However when I use it there it has no effect on emerges of things that
it should effect:

I don't have actual output from the commands below because I'm in the
throws of an install from scratch and have only ftp for remote access
so far.

cat /etc/make.conf
  CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -pipe"
  CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
  CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
  USE="mysql tetex symlinks kde qt dvd alsa cdr -imap -maildir -sasl"
  GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/"

Used like this  I still see a `+sasl' when I emerge -v -p  sendmail.

Using it on the emerge command line has the desired effect.  That is,
USE="-sasl" emerge -v -p sendmail  shows `-sasl' as expected.

Why doesn't it work with the entry in /etc/make.conf?

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