On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:33:14PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: > I recently ran into a REQUIRED_USE constraint that required I select > between berkdb and gdbm for an email client. This has now hit stable and is affecting me because I can't upgrade the email client without putting something in package.use.
> Looking through our profiles, I see we have both berkdb and gdbm > enabled "globally". > > default/linux/make.defaults:USE="berkdb crypt ipv6 ncurses nls pam > readline ssl tcpd zlib" > releases/make.defaults:USE="acl gdbm nptl unicode" > > Is there any reason to have these USE flags enabled globally? > > These USE seem pretty package-specific in scope. On my system, they > are used by around a dozen of 1000+ installed packages. I think it > might make sense to migrate them to appropriate IUSE defaults, or > leave them disabled where they do not provide critical functionality. I'm with floppym on this one. Is there a specific reason we enable them globally? Since there has been so little discussion on this thread, I will start looking at what I need to do to remove these use flags from the profiles. Thanks, William
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