On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 00:18:44 +0200 Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 9 Jun 2016, Michał Górny wrote: > >> That would be a policy violation. Packages should pick a reasonable > >> default if flags are conflicting, but not force users to > >> micro-manage their flags. > > > Who did establish that *idiotic* policy and why is he still a > > developer? > > Michał, > You may want to reconsider your tone. > > The policy was established when documenting REQUIRED_USE for EAPI 4, > and it is based on consensus in bug 353624 [1] and in the gentoo-dev > mailing list [2,3].
Really, that policy predates REQUIRED_USE, and even EAPIs... In the olden days, the rule was that USE flags were for things that were optional, and that if something wasn't optional, then it shouldn't be controlled by USE flags. -- Ciaran McCreesh
