On Thursday 19 July 2007, Duncan wrote:
> OTOH, if enabling those protocols pulls in all sorts of additional
> packages to support them, shipping with everything on just because it's
> possible is not the Gentoo way.  That's what USE flags are for.

USE flags are not for controlling dependencies, they are for controlling 
features.  it just happens to work out that most of the time, features imply 
dependencies.
-mike

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